Inside Voices, Outside Light
Published on 1. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-906570-58-3 (ISBN)
Description
The latest in Arc's Translation Series brings poems from Sigur?ur Palsson's ten collections written between 1980 and 2008 to a UK audience.
Swirling with imagery, they reveal a poet committed to unearthing the joy of living and its connections to the natural world. This is a thrilling sweep across Palsson's work: chronologies are upset, ideas run amok, views out onto the world close and open.
Also available in limited-edition hardback: ISBN 9781906570590 (GBP12.99)
This book is also available as a eBook. Buy it from Amazon here.
Sigur?ur Palsson was born in 1948 in Skinnastadur, Iceland. A writer, translator, professor and film producer, he won the Icelandic Literary Award in 2007, the same year he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite by the President of France. Martin Regal lives in Reykjavik and teaches at the University of Iceland. His translation of Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri was published by Penguin Classics in 2003 (ISBN 9780140447729).
Swirling with imagery, they reveal a poet committed to unearthing the joy of living and its connections to the natural world. This is a thrilling sweep across Palsson's work: chronologies are upset, ideas run amok, views out onto the world close and open.
Also available in limited-edition hardback: ISBN 9781906570590 (GBP12.99)
This book is also available as a eBook. Buy it from Amazon here.
Sigur?ur Palsson was born in 1948 in Skinnastadur, Iceland. A writer, translator, professor and film producer, he won the Icelandic Literary Award in 2007, the same year he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite by the President of France. Martin Regal lives in Reykjavik and teaches at the University of Iceland. His translation of Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri was published by Penguin Classics in 2003 (ISBN 9780140447729).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lancs
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906570-58-3 (9781906570583)
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Persons
The Icelandic poet, novelist, playwright and translator Sigurdur Palsson has worked as a professor and cinema producer. His poetry has been translated into ten languages. He is also the author of three acclaimed novels and a book of memoirs. He's produced award-winning features and directed TV films and several theatre plays. He's translated 22 titles from French into Icelandic and 2 plays by Arthur Miller. Palsson received the Icelandic Literature Award in 2007 and was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1990. In 2007 he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite.
Content
CONTENTS Introduction / 8 Nocturne for Mercury / 33 Nocturne for Venus / Nocturne for a full moon / Nocturne for a brimful moon / Nocturne for Mars / Nocturne for Jupiter / Nocturne for Saturn / Nocturne for Uranus / Land possessed by poems / Downtown in Reykjavik City / A few practical exercises in event poetry / My house / Beckett at the Closerie des Lilas /Plywood /The acacia tree / Miklatun Park / Search / The black land / Knowledge / Twilight / Star in the grass / The art of poetry / Hotel lounge / Windows / Photograph of a dead child / Keep on sitting here / Arrogance / Midnight / In the eaves / The Firmament/ Nothing / The dark / Eternal morning / Fragmented view / Each breath / Light / The shadow / Freedom is a question / Winged lion / Bole / Ode / The old harbour / Poem-energy-need / By river and ocean / Announcement from the international assembly of diamonds / Biographical Notes.