Poetry in Transatlantic Translation: Circulation and Practice Across Languages

在各种形式的孤立主义威胁着破坏全球文化关系的时代，这个项目的重点是诗歌和诗歌翻译的潜力，开辟多语言、跨学科参与的新途径。它将侧重于通过翻译或跨学科创作实践将英语诗歌与其他语言联系起来的关系。通过在欧洲和美洲更广泛的背景下理解英国和美国的诗歌，该项目将同时借鉴和质疑一个共同的英语语境，同时在其内部和外部建立新的联系。在此过程中，它将探索方法的差异，并发现协同效应；它将描述现有的关系以及创造新的联系和合作的潜力。该项目将是促进和加强一种更外向的诗歌方法的一种手段，其中包括翻译作为必要因素。以英语为母语的诗歌通常被认为居住在一个无缝的跨大西洋空间，例如在“国际”文学奖只对英语作品而不是翻译作品开放的文化中。然而，这个空间的明显流动性是由殖民时期的排斥和不平等形成的，它也掩盖了美国和英国之间文化经验和当代政治的真正差异。通过在诗歌及其翻译中发展新的讨论和交流方式，我的目标是改变诗人、译者、评论家及其读者对这一景观的看法。为了探索多种视角，我将通过一系列访谈来进行部分研究，并将以书的形式出版，并附上背景介绍。这将使我能够吸引从业者和学者进行对话，这将包括诗歌的文学和实践为基础的讨论，以及对诗歌在流通中的材料，社会和政治背景的分析。采访的过程，以及由此产生的书，将使人们反思诗歌和通过诗歌形成的社区如何最好地回应当前政治时刻的复杂性。书中调查的一个领域是国际诗歌节，它在拉丁美洲保持着重要的存在，在那里它们与进步政治结盟，在古巴和欧洲大陆也有很大的影响力，但在英国和美国却只有少数人感兴趣。在收集一系列观点的过程中，我将致力于发现这种差异的原因，以及在这些不同的背景下诗歌本身是什么。什么样的结构最能使诗歌流传？诗歌的接受如何影响翻译和编辑的选择？科技的进步如何影响面对面交流的需求？虽然社交媒体促进了联系，创造了联系的幻觉，但它的快速也会造成扭曲。诗歌吸引了哪些形式的注意力，为什么它们很重要？英国和美国目前面临着类似的文化挑战，但他们的诗歌翻译和出版界在很大程度上是分开的。我将与美国翻译家凯特·赫丁（Kate Hedeen）合作，创作一本英美翻译家选集，突出翻译家作为两国文化的桥梁建设者的工作，以及他们跨越语言和政治界限所建立的意想不到的联系。我将通过我自己的诗歌作品集的实践来发展这个项目的主题，这些诗歌将从我在安格尔西岛的家的有利位置，以及我对拉丁美洲诗歌的阅读和翻译，对跨大西洋的空间进行富有想象力的描绘。我还将与montracimal诗人Oana Avasilichioaei一起创作一场声音表演，重点关注语言和空间，这将把翻译作为一种现场的声音互动。

At a time when various forms of isolationism threaten to undermine global cultural relationships, this project centres on the potential of poetry and poetry translation to open up new routes of multilingual, cross-disciplinary engagement. It will focus on relationships that connect poetry in English with other languages through translation or interdisciplinary creative practice. By understanding poetry from the UK and USA in the broader contexts of Europe and the Americas, this project will simultaneously draw on and question a shared anglophone context while making new connections within and beyond it. In doing so it will explore differences of approach as well as discovering synergies; it will describe existing relationships as well as creating the potential for new contacts and collaborations. The project will be a means of promoting and strengthening a more outward-looking approach to poetry that encompasses translation as a necessary element. Anglophone poetry is often assumed to inhabit a seamless transatlantic space, for example in a culture of 'international' literary prizes open only to works written in English rather than translations. Yet the apparent fluidity of this space is formed by the exclusions and inequalities of a colonial past, and it also masks the very real differences of cultural experience and contemporary politics between the USA and UK. By developing new lines of discussion and communication in poetry and its translation, I aim to change conceptions of this landscape as it is often viewed by poets, translators, critics and their readers.In order to explore a multiplicity of perspectives, I will conduct part of this research through a series of interviews to be published in book form with a contextualising introduction. This will enable me to draw practitioners and academics into a dialogue that will encompass literary and practice-based discussion of poetry alongside analysis of the material, social and political contexts of poetry in circulation. The process of interviewing, as well as the resulting book, will allow for reflection on how poetry and the communities formed through it can best respond to the complexities of the current political moment. One area of investigation in the book will be international poetry festivals, which maintain a significant presence in Latin America, where they are allied with progressive politics, and have a substantial profile in Québec and in mainland Europe, but which are a minority interest in the UK and USA. In gathering a range of perspectives, I will aim to discover reasons for this difference as well as what poetry itself is understood to be in these different contexts. What structures best enable poetry to circulate? How does the reception of poetry affect choices made in translation and editing? How do advances in technology affect the need for face-to-face encounter? While social media facilitates contact and creates the illusion of connectedness, its rapidity can also create distortions. What forms of attention are drawn on in poetry and why do they matter?The UK and USA currently face similar cultural challenges but their poetry translation and publishing communities are largely separate.In collaboration with the American translator Kate Hedeen, I will create an anthology of UK and American translators, foregrounding the work of translators as bridge-builders in their cultures and the unexpected connections they make across linguistic and political boundaries.I will develop the themes of the project through my own practice in a collection of poems that will draw imaginatively on the space of the transatlantic from the vantage point of my home on Anglesey as well as on my reading and translation of Latin American poetry. I will also create a sound performance with the Montréal poet Oana Avasilichioaei, focusing on language and space, which will focus on translation as a live, sonic interaction.