AA CLED WI CLOUDS SHE CAM: 60 LYRICS FRAE THE CHINESE
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AA CLED WI CLOUDS SHE CAM: 60 LYRICS FRAE THE CHINESE by Brian Holton
Brian Holton is unique in that he can translate directly into Scots from the Chinese. This anthology consists of translations into Scots and English of the first sixty poems of the standard anthology Song Ci Sanbaishou(300 Song Dynasty Song Lyrics), edited by Zhu Zumou (1924), with a Translators Afterword/Owresetters Eftirword.
Brain is the living master of literary ScotsKathleen Jamie, Scotland’s Makar (the national poet laureate)
Holton, born in Galashiels in 1949, and educated at the Universities of Edinburgh and Durham, has published twenty books of translated poetry, including Yang Lian’s Venice Elegy (Edizioni Damocle, 2019) and Narrative Poem (Bloodaxe Books, 2017). In 2021, he was awarded the inaugural Sarah McGuire Prize for Poetry Translation for Yang Lian’s Anniver- sary Snow (Shearsman Books, 2019). Holton’s collection of classical poems in Scots, Staunin Ma Lane, was published by Shearsman Books in 2016, and his Hard Roads an Cauld Hairst Winds: Li Bai an Du Fu in Scots by Taproot Press in early 2022. He has won other prizes both for his own poetry in Scots and for his translations into both Scots and English. He is a recovering academic who taught Chinese language and literature at Edinburgh, Durham and Newcastle, and translation at Newcastle and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has given lectures, readings and workshops at universities and major literary festivals in the UK, Spain, Italy, Holland, New Zealand, China, the USA, and Canada. He lives in Melrose in the Scottish Borders, close to where he was born.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781838201876 |
| ISBN 10 | 1838201874 |
| Title | AA CLED WI CLOUDS SHE CAM: 60 LYRICS FRAE THE CHINESE |
| Author | Brian Holton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | IRISH PAGES |
| Year published | 2022-08-15 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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