SITE CLOSING DOWN 1 OCTOBER 2009. NEW SITE UP AND RUNNING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AT: http://www.johnirons.com
The files included on this site are samples of the work carried out by transfertext.
Translations are from various languages into English. There are certain specialities, including art, philosophy, education and poetry. The languages translated from are Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German and French.
Transfertext has been in existence for almost twenty years. It is a strange hybrid - apart from professional translations covering a wide area, it also devotes much time and energy to translating poetry both professionally and privately for poets who express a desire to see their poetry in an English version.
JUST OUT:
A Philosophy of Pain by Arne Johan Vetlesen Reaktion Books
NOW OUT:
Henrik Wergeland Jan van Huysum's Flower Piece Publisher: Maia Press
The End is Nigh - on natural disasters and societies, Henrik Svensen (from the Norwegian)
A Time in Xanadu by the Swedish poet Lars Gustafsson Published by Copper Canyon Press For a review go to: here
Voices from the North An anthology of new writing from Norway. Published by MAIA. Contributions: Rimbereid and Wardenær
AWAITING PUBLICATION IN 2010 Can agriculture feed the world? Agriculture and society in the 21st century by Christian Anton Smedshaug. From the Norwegian.
The anthology of English translations of Danish poetry is now complete! A selection of 100 poems has been made from '1000 danske digte'. For a sample of 'the oldies', go to 'Files'.
APPETISERS Chapters from 'The Honey Trap' by Unni Lindell (Norwegian) Chapters from 'Black' by Gunn M. Roll (Norwegian) Chapters from 'The Bite' by Hilde Hagerup (Norwegian) Chapters from 'Paradise Lost' by Birger Baug (Norwegian) Chapters from 'Henrik Ibsen - The Mask' by Ivo de Figueiredo (Norwegian) Chapters from 'I am the Walker Brothers' by Jan Kjærstad (Norwegian) Chapters from 'The Slope' by Carl Frode Tiller (Norwegian)
POETRY ON OFFER RIGHT NOW
Today's poem is 'BUT THE ANT' by the Dutch poet Eva Gerlach.
The workshop poem is 'DAY IN AUTUMN' by the German poet Friedrich Hebbel. NEW PAGE! WORKSHOP ARCHIVES, WITH PREVIOUS POEMS.
NOV. 27 2008 WAS THE 70TH BIRTHDAY of the permanently featured Danish poet Klaus Høeck. On that day his mammoth collection HEPTAMERON was added to the electronic manuscripts section of the Royal Library in Copenhagen. To access go to here. To view his magnum opus 'HOME' or the collection 'FAIRYTALES' go to here For two further collections, IN NOMINE and HSIEH, see 'Files'
NEW FEATURE - POEMS TRANSLATED INTO DANISH Today's poem is not the usual En-Da recipe. It is a Dutch poem by Willem Jan Otten, translated into English, Danish and Swedish.
For a link to translations of the Flemish poets Holvoet-Hanssen, Paul Bogaert, Dirk van Bastelaere, Hugo Claus and Jan Lauwereyns, go to here
For a link to translations of the Dutch poets Anne Vegter, Erik Menkveld, Gerrit Komrij, Alfred Schaffer (see under 'Files'), Hagar Peeters, Hester Knibbe, Menno Wigman, K. Michel, Willem Jan Otten, Joke van Leeuwen, Gerrit Krol, Anneke Brassinga, Eva Gerlach and Peter van Lier, go to here. For translations of poems from 'Ijsbeerbestaan', 'Dodemont' and 'Waterland' by Victor Vroomkoning go to here 'At the sight of his body' - a collection of poems by the Dutch poet Peter Swanborn For a translation of the whole collection, go to 'Files'
