Outlaws and Highwaymen
Structure & Surprise | Engaging Poetic Turns
Description: Gillian Spraggs: poetry site
poetry (4192) poems (980) translations (800) sappho (13) gillian spraggs (1) renée vivien (1)
Talisman In the depths of your heart a broad land, in the heart of the land a bright river, in the curve of the river a square city, above the city a golden sun, the rising sun. Sun, city, river, land in your heart, in the depths of your heart. These poems and translations have mostly been published before in magazines and anthologies. As a poet, I am often drawn to very ancient forms of poetry: charms, riddles, gnomic verses.
As a translator, I have dabbled in several languages, but chiefly stick to the ones I learned at school: Latin, French, and ancient Greek. The translations here are all of poems, with a single exception.
The poet most generously represented is Sappho . There are also several translations from the French of poems by the neglected Anglo- American poet ‘ Renée Vivien ’ (Pauline Tarn, 1877–1909).
Outlaws and Highwaymen
Structure & Surprise | Engaging Poetic Turns