Swirl Of Words/Swirl Of Worlds
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Stephen Watts by Lucinda Douglas Menzies
Poet & translator Stephen Watts has gathered an anthology of almost a hundred poems from almost a hundred languages, as a celebration of the astonishing richness of linguistic diversity in Hackney. Entitled Swirl of Words/Swirl of Worlds, it will be launched in June by Peer when copies will be distributed free to library members. As a preview, I have selected six favourites below, each followed by a translation in English. Click here to support this wonderful endeavour
(Latvian)
(Punjabi)
(Malayalam)
(Japanese)
(Bulgarian)
(Chinese)
These are wonderful poems. Reflective and clear, they are bright streams of individual vision flowing into the river of our rich and shared experience.
What a mganificent idea. Whenever a language dies, and they die more often than we think, we lose a whole culture. Language and how we use it, says so much about ourselves.
A lovely idea to which I have subscribed.
Thank you for bringing the book to our attention.