September 2007 Feature: Argyll to Israel

I WAS INVITED to take part in the Poet to Poet translation project in Israel and Cove Park by Loch Long, Argyll in April and May 2007. Under this project, selected poets work in pairs to produce translations of each other's work, sometimes in a mutually enriching literary endeavour and at other times more like a form of charades.

Amir Or.

The languages involved in the project in 2007 were Arabic, English, Gaelic and Hebrew, and the other participants from Britain were Polly Clark, Antony Dunn and W. N. Herbert.

The other participants were Ayman Agbaria from Umm Al-Fahm and Nidaa Khoury, a Melkite Catholic Arab – I think I’ve got that correctly – from Fasuta in Galilee, near the border with Lebannon (both writing predominantly in Arabic) and Yael Globerman and Amir Or (both from Tel Aviv and writing predominantly in Hebrew). Amir Or’s poetry has been extensively translated into English.

W. N. Herbert.

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Northings 1: Rody Gorman on translating the songs of Bob Dylan into Gaelic

JOHN BURNS speaks to writer and poet RODY GORMAN about his project to translate the songs of Bob Dylan into the Gaelic language. Recorded in January 2008 on location on the Isle of Skye. © HI~Arts, 2008

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