Today at Círculo de Poesía: Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). Irish poet, novelist, playwright and theatre director. In 1969 he deserved the Nobel Prize in Literature. Some of his most famous books are Whoroscope (1930,) Murphy (1938), Molloy (1951), Malone dies (1951), Waiting for Godot (1952). We present his Cascando in both English and Spanish. Hoy en…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier. We present Child burial, a poem by Paula Meehan (Dublin, 1955). Poet and playwrigtht who was awarded the Chair of Irish Poetry and named Professor of Poetry, by President Michael D. Higgins. She was also awarded with The Martin Toonder Award for Literature; The Butler Literary Award…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier. In the recent edition of the Mexico City Poetry Festival (Encuentro Internacional de Poesía de la Ciudad de México). Círculo de Poesía and Valparaíso México Press published Paul Muldoon’s book: Almuerzo con Pancho Villa, poemas escogidos 1968-1998 in translation by Gustavo Osorio de Ita.…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier. We present: Ithaca, a poem by Theo Dorgan (1953). Poet, editor and translator. «One of the great keepers of the Grail of Irish poetry in the current era…». Author of poetry books as: The ordinary house of love (1990), Rosa Mundi (1995) and Greek (2010)…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier. We present a poem by Dennis O’Driscoll (1954-2012). Wes Davis said that “O’Driscoll has been called poet of the everyday, but his poetry finds its greatest intensity in the meeting of the ordinary with the marvelous and terrible anomalies that occasionally disrupt…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier. In this occasion we present 3 poems by the Nobel Prize, W.B. Yeats (1865-1939): Who goes with Fergus?, Leda and the Swan, and one of the most commented Yeats works: The Second Coming. All translated by Sergio Eduardo Cruz Flores (1994). Hoy…
Today at Círculo de Poesía, a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier. We present a poem by Rita Ann Higgins (1955). Poet and Playwright. She has published books of poetry as: Goddess and Witch, 1990, Sunny Side Plucked, 1996, Throw in the Vowels:New & Selected Poems, 2005 and Ireland Is Changing Mother, 2011, among…
Today at Círculo de Poesía in a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier, we present a poem by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill (1952). She writes in Gaelic and her work has been translated into English by Seamus Heany and Paul Muldoon among others. The present translation is by Flora Button-Burlá. We are in front of…
Today at Círculo de Poesía the new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier is dedicated to Spanish version of an excerpt from Eavan Boland’s, Suburban Woman: Another Detail (2001). Eavan Boland (Dublin, 1944). Poet, essayist and professor who publish her first poetry book in 1967. Her work have appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker,…
Today at Círculo de Poesía a new post of our Irish Poetry Dossier. On this occasion we present: Whoroscope, a singular poem by Nobel Prize Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). This version is by the renowned Spanish translator Jenaro Talens (1946). En el marco de nuestro Dossier de Poesía de Irlanda, presentamos el singular poema: Whoroscope del Premio…