Professor John Corbett discusses Edwin Morgan’s translation of Rostand’s CYRANO DE BERGERAC – from our 2021 Schools Conference
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@asls.org.ukProfessor John Corbett discusses Edwin Morgan’s translation of Rostand’s CYRANO DE BERGERAC – from our 2021 Schools Conference
#InternationalTranslationDay #drama #theatre #translation
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@penamerica.bsky.socialCelebrate #InternationalTranslationDay by adding a few of these 2026 releases to your TBR! bookshop.org/lists/books-...
@princetonupress.bsky.socialOn #InternationalTranslationDay, join literary translator, Shelley Frisch, as she speaks on the principles that guide her work, rituals that she turns to as she settles in with a work, and what she enjoys most about translating texts in this exclusive interview.
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@lawrenceschimel.bsky.socialAnd not only do @theemmapress.bsky.social #namethetranslator on the cover, they even name the translator ON THE SPINE!
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@lawrenceschimel.bsky.socialWhat a perfect way to celebrate both #InternationalTranslationDay #ITD & the last day of #WorldKidLitMonth: my translator copies of WHEN YOU WERE A CLOUD written by María José Ferrada & illustrated by Azul López (@theemmapress.bsky.social) arrived in the mail!
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@accentableservices.bsky.socialThis #InternationalTranslationDay, we celebrate the dedicated interpreters ensuring that every voice is heard and understood!
@asls.org.ukCan ye wheeple
Nocturnes frae a rone-pipe flute?
“Morgan brings out sonorities audible in the Russian but beyond the scope of standard English” – Carol Rumens on Morgan’s Scots translation of Mayakovsky’s “А вы могли бы?”
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The starns licht up—aa richt:
does that prove some loon hud to hae it?
Nicole Rudick in the @parisreview.bsky.social on WI THE HAILL VOICE – Morgan’s Scots translations of 25 poems by Mayakovsky
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@asls.org.uk“The use of Scots, apart from the relative ease of working up the right atmosphere, also helps (though dangerously) because of the verbal freedom it confers on a harassed translator”
—Edwin Morgan on translating Mayakovsky
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![2: A note to the translation of Mayakovsky’s ‘Fiddle-Ma-Fidgin’
In the triptych by Hieronymus Bosch known as The Garden of Earthly Delights, the ‘Hell’ panel shows a man crucified on a harp, with the strings passing through his body, but his arms free, embracing it, in an extraordinary image of mingled pain, beauty, and yearning. In the same picture, this man is surrounded by much more grotesque images, where figures of desperation are doing things to and with various musical instruments
Which even to name wad be unlawfu’.
The poetry of Mayakovsky from his futurist period shows a similar conjunction of extreme yearning and coarsely grotesque asseverations, held together in a web of convincing fantasy where animate and inanimate react on one another. In the present poem (actual title The Violin and a Little Nervously, date 1914), written when Mayakovsky was twenty, the poet expresses in miniature the situation of his whole life: loneliness, desire to communicate and ‘contribute’, sympathy towards the outcast and the misunderstood. The potential desperation in this, however, finds voice through fantasy, fun, and caricature. A violin (the word is feminine in Russian) begins to ‘sing’ in such a personal and yearning way that the other instruments in the orchestra get annoyed with it and tell it to shut up until it can control itself; the poet bursts in on the orchestra and despite their ribald laughter embraces the […]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:vmd2oqboco524fhpqdu7pnbn/bafkreigvqyld4m2qtaw4a23yqymq7zk3zm2e6h5dx7jfww6jtukoxj3dtm@jpeg)
![[…] violin and proposes to this ‘wooden bride’, which he sees as a kindred soul.
I wanted in my translation to bring out if I could the distinctive Mayakovskian mixture of grotesque high-jinks and underlying seriousness of purpose. To do this, I used Scots, trying to tap an enduring Scottish tradition of grotesque exaggeration or fantasy which is found in Dunbar and the ballads, Burns and MacDiarmid.
They’ll turn me in your arms, lady,
Into an esk and adder;
But haud me fast, and fear me not,
I am your bairn’s father.
The use of Scots, apart from the relative ease of working up the right atmosphere, also helps (though dangerously) because of the verbal freedom it confers on a harassed translator. What can only be weakly called ‘expressive’ words tumble from the Caledonian cornucopia: slunkert, daunert, glinkit, sprachlt, crunkelt, yowp and yowl, for which ‘slunk’, ‘wandered’, ‘glanced’, ‘sprawled’, ‘folded’, ‘bawl and howl’ are unimpressive equivalents. The temptation in this is to make the poem look more continuously vivid or ‘strange’ than it really is. Fortunately it is difficult to make Mayakovsky look over-vivid, as his diction employs every liberty the genius of Russian allows, but the method would work only with poets who were similarly inventive and uninhibited in their linguistic texture. I don’t look on Scots as a medium that can now be widely or thoughtlessly used in poetry, but against the argument that we have reached the stage where it should be given up altogether I would offer the evidence of my own experience in translating Mayakovsky (and add to it Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Scottish version of Blok’s The Twelve): Scots gets closer than English to the ‘barbarian lyre’ of the revolutionary spirit. If people can be persuaded to read it, it will give them a sensation they cannot at the moment get from English verse.
The Review 1, April/May 1962.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:vmd2oqboco524fhpqdu7pnbn/bafkreig3s3baoejirvuc57pl3m33slhl6ygnuoa72otci7rtvet2rsk3fi@jpeg)
@societyofauthors.bsky.socialToday is #InternationalTranslationDay, so it's the perfect time to share our new resource: Why Translators Are Better. Download it now on the Resources section of our website.
@rollhoodofficial.bsky.socialInternational Translation Day | Translating Words, Connecting Worlds
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@translatorsaloud.bsky.socialWe wrap up our 2026 #InternationalTranslationDay celebration with a very special feature: translator David Houston-Hill on Translating Songs & Poems: Matching Meaning, Style and Form. Sure to be fascinating AND useful for translators and translation buffs alike. Enjoy! #ITD #ITD2026
@drhannahstevens.bsky.socialAnd most importantly worked with some fantastic writers and translators. Here's looking at all of you folks ♥️
@asls.org.uk30 Sep is #InternationalTranslationDay!
THE BOTTLE IMP: Scottish literature & #translation
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🏆Scotland’s Nobel-nominated Esperanto poet
🇫🇷Franco-Scots poetry & postcolonialism
🏗️Transcreating concrete poetry
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@nativeprime.bsky.socialHappy International Translation Day! 🌿
Where would we be without translation? So many cultures, stories, and works of art would remain out of reach.
We love being part of what brings people closer together, one language at a time. 🎮
@dpagan5.bsky.social@asls.org.ukMICHEL TREMBLAY: PLAYS IN SCOTS
in 2 vols
Translated by Martin Bowman & Bill Findlay
Ed. Martin Bowman
The energy & versatility of 8 of Tremblay’s Québécois plays, captured in Scots translation. Available from good booksellers everywhere!
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@asls.org.uk“Detailed introductions by Bowman… plus forewords by Michael Boyd & Ian Brown, provide the reader with an understanding of the Scottish political, social & theatrical context into which these trailblazing translations appeared”
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