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Turkish poetry translator Poetry/writing/& zine-ing Cymraes (Welsh) https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/human-rights/wtwt/ Poetry translations: [email protected] Consultant on Turkey & FoE
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Palewell Press book festival in Kensington library ‘Literature in protests, with purpose’
I too detest big translation companies. One of them pitched my own project to me and many have lied about using first language speakers. Interpreting is no better. Legal interpreting used to pay properly 15 years ago until the police in Wales inhoused all the work and offered 15 quid an hour.
I see The Big Word continues to live up to its nickname #ThePigTurd

I appreciate @privateeyenews.bsky.social continuing to cover grasping mega agencies and the impact of AI on the translation industry.
Have begun translating a story on the train (a story within a novel) about a minstrel’s search for a mythical bird that I’ve wanted to translate for ten years. It takes up 39 pages of the book. I’m aiming to edit it down and learn it for a story telling festival next year.
Mining for the moon. Off on the train to overpriced London where is buried the head of mythical Welsh giant. Bendigeidfran. Of Bran, ‘a leader is a bridge’ fame.
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Skeletal illustrations supposedly replicating a lost 15th-century manuscript by the wine and women–loving Zen monk Ikkyū. The lively images testify to their maker’s sardonic sense of humor: skeletons dancing, drumming, drinking sake, having sex...
Ikkyū in Hell: *Skeletons* (1692)
Skeletal illustrations supposedly replicating a lost manuscript by a wine and women–loving Zen monk.
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City Lights, a San Francisco Institution founded by the late great Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, has banners posted for this time in history
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Obituary: Yvonne Brewster — Pioneer of black British theatre who co-founded Talawa Theatre Company and was also a prolific director and actor, with wide-ranging credits from Radio Jamaica to the National Theatre.
Obituary: Yvonne Brewster - director, actor and Talawa co-founder
Pioneer of black British theatre who co-founded Talawa Theatre Company and was also a prolific director and actor
www.thestage.co.uk
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Mounting a resolute defence against the far right on immigration is necessary but not sufficient. We need aggressively pro-immigration voices - like this - in UK politics. Actively welcoming migrants is morally right and better for everyone. Make that case and put the bigots on the defensive.
The end of free movement of people with the European Union has been a “disaster” for the UK that should be urgently reversed, new Green Party leader Zack Polanski told POLITICO — in his first major intervention on EU policy.
Ending EU free movement a ‘disaster’ for Britain, says Green Party’s Zack Polanski
The party’s new leader calls for the migration pact to be reinstated as he sets out his stall on Brexit.
www.politico.eu
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The translators for this project: Sifiso Mzobe and Zukiswa Wanner, aren't online here, but I hope people will give it a look and help us support them. Getting this second book funded would mean so much to so many people.
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3070, 69%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...
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Register online to attend this, in 7 hours.
Also tonight in UK online : Broken Sleep poetry publishers' readings and launches:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

The US one will follow the Broken Sleep event, so both are do-able in Europe. Looking foward!