Following on from successful editions of The Poetry Ritual in preceding years, members of the Poetry Critique Meet-up which is sponsored by Straw Dog Writers and the Northampton Center for the […]
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This fourth poetry collection by poet and translator Michael Favala Goldman was published on May 27, 2022. You can find out more about the book here. Below are some selected
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The last couple of weeks I have been reading, selecting, and translating the poems of Danish author Rolf Gjedsted. Today I found out that he died four days ago. Two
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I am very grateful to the following poets for graciously agreeing to be part of the book launch for my new poetry collection If you were here you would feel
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Brainchild I did this thing The kind of thing people have thought about for ages So I feel a bit embarrassed calling it mine – Actually it’s yours. from Small
‘Small Sovereign’ wins Los Angeles Book Festival award Read More »
When I left my full-time job as a contractor/carpenter nearly ten years ago, I had a lot of motivation to reinvent myself as a writer/translator. But I had little experience.
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I have good news to share. My collection of poetry, Slow Phoenix, which was published last year, has been recognized in the poetry category of the Independent Press Award® (IPA)
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I was recently asked to do something very different; to translate a poem by Tove Ditlevsen for a Danish fashion designer, Cecilie Bahnsen, who is planning to have my translation read
Cecilie Bahnsen to feature Tove Ditlevsen poem at Paris Fashion Week Read More »
An invitation In late summer of 2021, I was contacted out of the blue by PEN. I had been recommended as a judge for their 25th annual award in translated
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In 2016 I translated Tove Ditlevsen’s Gift into English as Dependency. Through a series of coincidences, in 2018 I was able to submit it for consideration to Penguin Classics, who
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