This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is “Poetry and Conflict”. 21 international poets from 18 different places are invited to participate in recitations, symposia and sharing sessions of the Poetry Nights. A recitation focusing on 10 local Hong Kong poets, “Hong Kong Cantonese Poetry Night” is included. This collection seeks to make accessible the best of contemporary international poetry with outstanding translations.
Les Murray, born October 1938, is a prominent Australian poet who has published 16 poetry collections since 1965. Some of his collections have been published in translation, notably in German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Italian, Slovenian, Macedonian and Spanish. Prominent prizes in English that have come his way home have included the Petrarch Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and the Mondello Prize in Italy.
目錄
Kiss of the Whip 6
吻鞭
The Gum Forest 12
桉樹林
The Bulldozer 18
推土機
Poetry and Religion 20
詩與宗教
The Tin Wash Dish 24
錫洗盤
Shellback Tick 28
龜殼蜱
Dead Trees in the Dam 30
水塘上的枯樹
It Allows a Portrait in Line Scan at Fifteen 34
十五歲詩畫像
Deaf Language 44
聾語
A Postcard 46
一張明信片
The Images Alone 48
意象罷了
The Moon Man 50
月人
The Great Cuisine Cleaver Dance Sonnet 52
切工廚師之舞十四行詩