Poetry in Transatlantic Translation: Circulation and Practice Across Languages

在各种形式的孤立主义威胁破坏全球文化关系的时候，该项目的重点是诗歌和诗歌翻译的潜力，以开辟多语言、跨学科参与的新途径。它将专注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来自英国和美国的诗歌，该项目将同时利用和质疑共享的英语背景，同时在其内外建立新的联系。在这样做的过程中，它将探索方法的差异以及发现协同作用；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对诗歌采取更加外向的做法的一种手段，其中将翻译作为一项必要的要素。以英语为母语的诗歌通常被认为存在于一个无缝的大西洋彼岸，例如，在一个只向英语作品开放而不是翻译作品的国际文学奖文化中。然而，这个空间表面上的流动性是由殖民历史的排斥和不平等形成的，它也掩盖了美国和英国在文化经验和当代政治方面的真正差异。通过在诗歌及其翻译中发展新的讨论和交流路线，我的目标是改变诗人、翻译家、评论家和他们的读者经常看到的对这一景观的看法。为了探索多元化的视角，我将通过一系列访谈进行部分研究，这些访谈将以书籍的形式出版，并结合背景介绍。这将使我能够吸引从业者和学者参与对话，包括以文学和实践为基础的诗歌讨论，以及对流通中的诗歌的物质、社会和政治背景的分析。采访的过程，以及由此产生的书，将允许反思诗歌和通过它形成的社区如何最好地应对当前政治时刻的复杂性。这本书的一个调查领域将是国际诗歌节，它们在拉丁美洲保持着重要的存在，在那里它们与进步的政治结盟，在魁北克和欧洲大陆有相当大的知名度，但在英国和美国只有少数人感兴趣。通过收集一系列的观点，我将致力于发现这种差异的原因，以及诗歌本身在这些不同的背景下被理解为什么。什么样的结构最能让诗歌流传下去？诗歌的接受如何影响翻译和编辑的选择？技术的进步对面对面交流的需求有何影响？虽然社交媒体促进了联系，制造了一种联系的错觉，但它的快速也可能造成扭曲。诗歌吸引了哪些形式的关注？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，但它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·海丁合作，创作一本英美翻译家选集，突出译者作为两国文化桥梁建设者的工作，以及他们跨越语言和政治边界所产生的意想不到的联系。我将通过自己的诗集实践来发展这个项目的主题，从我在安格尔西的家的有利位置，以及我对拉美诗歌的阅读和翻译的角度，富有想象力地利用大西洋彼岸的空间。我还将与蒙雷亚尔诗人Oana Avasilhioaei一起创作一场声音表演，重点是语言和空间，重点是翻译作为一种现场的、声音的互动。

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.