Fower Pessoas

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2026A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025Shortlisted for the Scots Book O' the Year Award 2025Shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2025Fower Pessoas is the most original work of translation that you will read this year: a bold reimagining of Fernando Pessoa's poetry by an exciting next-generation Scottish poet. Following his subject's unique approach to composition, Colin Bramwell puts all four of Pessoa'sheteronyms into a present-day Scots-language vernacular, and so createsa parochial Pessoa for our own times.Bramwell's adaptation matches his subject's restless lyricism. It is rare to see a translator go toe-to-toe with their subject in this way. The resulting entanglement makes for some astonishing, full-throated poetry.Readers will be delighted by this witty, emotive and artful reinterpretation of an indispensable European poet. Fower Pessoasnot only celebrates Pessoa's extraordinary range of modes and moods, but also marks the arrival of an outstanding new talent in Scottish poetry.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-27
Mått135 x 216 x 9 mm
Vikt112 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor88
FörlagCarcanet Press Ltd
ISBN9781800174641
UtmärkelserShort-listed for Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2026

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Colin Bramwell was born in Ayrshire, grew up in Fortrose on the Black Isle and lives in Edinburgh. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Review, Irish Pages, The London Magazine, PN Review, Magma, The Rialto, New Writing Scotland, Interpret, Poetry Scotland and The Scotsman. He was the runner-up for the 2020 Edwin Morgan Prize; his translations of Yang Mu won the 2018 John Dryden Translation Competition; his translation of Ko-Hua Chen's Decapitated Poetry won the 2024 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. He holds a doctorate in creative writing from the University of St Andrews.

'The original text by Pessoa shimmers in the background like a living moving ghost whilst Bramwell works his magic front stage. Bramwell's new collection Fower Pessoas - translations into Scots of poems by Fernando Pessoa (or by four of his aliases/heteronyms) - could soon be considered a modern Scots language masterpiece.'The Scotsman'Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be. ... What is exceptional is that Bramwell fashions distinct, plural Scots for Pessoa's different heteronyms. The chutzpah is amazing.'Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman'Bramwell's collection... makes its point firmly - Scots remains a vital poetic medium for surprising and pleasing literary ventures.'John Corbett, The Bottle Imp'Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be.' The Scotsman