{"id":3588,"date":"2016-11-28T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2016-11-25T10:20:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T02:20:55","slug":"dundee-review-on-holtons-staunin-ma-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3588","title":{"rendered":"Dundee Review on Holton’s Staunin Ma Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"holton\"<\/a>Xinyi Jiang and Lindsay Macgregor at the Dundee Review of the Arts<\/em> <\/a>give their take on Brian Holton’s Staunin Ma Lane<\/em>, a collection of classical Chinese poetry translated into Scots (with English “glosses”). They write:<\/p>\n

The archaisms of the classical Chinese language, the multiple meanings of individual Chinese characters, as well as the very different cultural allusions must surely have made translation a daunting task. But if so, it never shows. There\u2019s a natural ease to Holton\u2019s Scots which belies the compromises which translation necessarily incurs when qualities of sight and sound, meaning and allusion jostle for survival in each line. Holton\u2019s improvisations, translations and cover versions \u2013 faithful and playful, confident and experimental \u2013 make classical Chinese poetry both highly accessible and hugely enjoyable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click the image for the review in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Xinyi Jiang and Lindsay Macgregor at the Dundee Review of the Arts give their take on Brian Holton’s Staunin Ma Lane, a collection of classical Chinese poetry translated into Scots (with English “glosses”). They write: The archaisms of the classical … 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":[3],"tags":[174,1760,1759],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-VS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3524,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3524","url_meta":{"origin":3588,"position":0},"title":"Johnston on Holton’s Staunin Ma Lane","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Michael Johnston blogs about Staunin Ma Lane, Brian Holton's translations of classical Chinese poetry: Brian Holton\u2019s passions for language and languages, for the poetic and the pawky, his musicianship which adds rhythm, melody, counterpoint and grace notes to his translations are all sweetly evident in the poems in this beautiful\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.akanos.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/staunin_ma_lane.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3507,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3507","url_meta":{"origin":3588,"position":1},"title":"Scotland’s National on Brian Holton","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"June 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The National (\"Scotland's only daily newspaper supporting independence\") has a write-up on Staunin Ma Lane, Brian Holton's translation into Scots of a selection of classical Chinese poetry. 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