Tag: Hugh Maxton

• ‘The Headless Bird’ by Ileana Mãlãncioiu

  

  According to custom, the old people have shut me away not to scare me stupid when they killed the bird, and I am listening by the bolted door to the trampling and the struggle. I twist the lock time has worn thin to forget what I have heard, to get away from this struggle where […]

  Chris Murray

  September 29, 2012

  A Saturday Woman Poet, Images, reviews, translated poetry, Translation

  Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Hugh Maxton, Irish poetry, Paul Celan, Poet, poetry, Tess Gallagher, Todesfuge

• ‘Trees’ by Ágnes Nemes Nagy

  Trees   Learn. The winter trees. Hoarfrosted crown to root. Immovable curtains.   And learn too of the zone where a crystal steams and trees merge into mists, as the body in recollection of it.   And behind the trees, the river mute wings of the wild duck the whiteblind blue night of hooded objects […]

  Chris Murray

  December 31, 2011

  A Saturday Woman Poet, Images, translated poetry, Translation

  A Saturday Woman Writer, Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Corvina, Dedalus, Hugh Maxton, poetry, Poetry in translation

• ‘Hemisphere’ by Ágnes Nemes Nagy.

  Hemisphere  by Ágnes Nemes Nagy. Here, is the upper hemisphere. Still grey, where grey and liquid white meet a liquid stairway, and with the white whiter yet. Here, is the upper zone where on frosty grass thaw starts, where the dew stitching grass and air makes the field seem higher – an uncertain rainbow. Then […]

  Chris Murray

  December 11, 2010

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, Alphabets, translated poetry

  A Saturday Woman Poet, Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Corvina, Dedalus Poetry, George Szirtes, Hugh Maxton, Translation