Presentamos cinco poemas de Paula Meehan (Dublín, 1955). Poeta y dramaturga irlandesa. Ha merecido reconocimientos como el Arts Council Bursaries in Literature; The Martin Toonder Award for Literature; The Butler Literary Award for Poetry otorgado por el Irish American Cultural Institute, entre otros. Estos cinco poemas pertenecen a su más reciente libro, Painting Rain. La traducción…
Presentamos un poema del autor irlandés Ciaran Carson (Belfast, 1948). Ha publicado los libros The Irish for No (1987), ganador del Alice Hunt Bartlett Award; Belfast Confetti (1989); First Language: Poems (1994), ganador del T.S. Eliot Prize; Breaking News (2003), que obtuvo el Forward Poetry Prize; For All We Know (2008); On the Night Watch (2010); y Until Before…
Presentamos una selección poética del poeta irlandés Seamus Heaney, premio nobel de Literatura. Heaney fue catedrático en la universidad estadounidense de Harvard y en la inglesa de Oxford. Su obra está marcada por la violencia de protestantes y católicos del Ulster e influida por la búsqueda de la propia historia de su país. Su primer poemario…
Presentamos, en versión de Marina Fe, un texto de la poeta irlandesa Paula Meehan (Dublin, 1955). Ha merecido reconocimientos como el Arts Council Bursaries in Literature; The Martin Toonder Award for Literature; The Butler Literary Award for Poetry presented by the Irish American Cultural Institute, etc. Su último poemario es Music for Dogs: Three radio plays. …
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…