{"id":329,"date":"2011-11-13T12:14:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T04:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2011-11-13T12:17:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T04:17:22","slug":"last-day-of-international-poetry-nights-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Last Day of International Poetry Nights Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having edited Chinese to English translations for the International Poetry Nights<\/a>‘ Words & the World<\/em> booklets<\/a>, I am familiar with all the participating poets who write in Chinese. Still, having a chance to hear Hongkong poet Wong Leung Wo<\/a> \u738b\u826f\u548c read his poems–written in standard Chinese, pronounced as Mandarin in my head–in Cantonese was fascinating for the linguistic disjunctiveness the poems created beneath their poetic smoothness (added to by Canaan Morse<\/a>‘s excellent English translations, also onscreen behind Wong as he read). But even more exciting for me were the poets I hadn’t had much chance to encounter before; in particular, Mexican poet Mar\u00eda Baranda<\/a>‘s reading from “Cartas a Robins\u00f3n” \/ “Letters to Robinson,” translated by Joshua Edwards<\/a> in a way that brings out the rolling passion of Baranda’s Spanish, was enthralling, as was Toma\u017e \u0160alamun<\/a>‘s switching back and forth between Slovenian and English as he read (I saw Toma\u017e being interviewed by Xi Chuan and Chinese poetry critic Tang Xiaodu<\/a> \u5510\u6653\u6e21, an interview I’ll be sure to link to if it appears online).<\/p>\n

The finale for the International Poetry Nights is tonight at 7:00 at the Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity<\/a> (Multi-Media Theatre, 135 Junction Road, Kowloon), with readings by Paul Muldoon<\/a> (Ireland \/ USA), Tian Yuan \u7530\u539f<\/a> (China\/Japan), and Yip Fa<\/a>i \u8449\u7147 (Hong Kong).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having edited Chinese to English translations for the International Poetry Nights‘ Words & the World booklets, I am familiar with all the participating poets who write in Chinese. Still, having a chance to hear Hongkong poet Wong Leung Wo \u738b\u826f\u548c … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,9,7],"tags":[93,94,64,68,95,77,71,78,1654,80],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-5j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":273,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=273","url_meta":{"origin":329,"position":0},"title":"Words and the World","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Words & The World, the twenty-volume box set of multilingual pocket-sized poetry books for this year's International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong (which will take place from the 10th to 13th this month) has been published. 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