Poems from the Edge of Extinction: The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Languages, in Association with the National Poetry Library - Softcover

McCabe, Chris

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ISBN 10: 1473693004 ISBN 13: 9781473693005

Verlag: Chambers, 2021

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According to Unesco, of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world, more than half are endangered, with one disappearing every two weeks. This collection of 50 poems celebrates and preserves these unique voices and takes the reader on a global journey of discovery.

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Chris McCabe's poetry collections are The Hutton Inquiry, Zeppelins, THE RESTRUCTURE (all Salt Publishing) and, most recently, Speculatrix (Penned in the Margins). He has recorded a CD with the Poetry Archive was shortlisted for The Ted Hughes Award in 2013 for his collaborative book with Maria Vlotides, Pharmapoetica. His plays Shad Thames, Broken Wharf and Mudflats, which won a Northern Arts Award, have been performed in London and Liverpool. He has read his work at venues including Southbank Centre, the British Library, the BFI, the Whitechapel Gallery and the Wellcome as well as performing at festivals such as Latitude and Ledbury.

He is writing a series of creative non-fiction books that aim to discover a great lost poet in one of London's Magnificent Seven cemeteries. This began in 2014 with In the Catacombs: a Summer Among the Dead Poets of West Norwood Cemetery (which was selected as an LRB Bookshop book of the year) and was followed in 2016 with Cenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery. The project has been awarded Grants for Arts funding from Arts Council England. He is also the author of Real South Bank (Seren, 2016) and with Victoria Bean he is the co-editor of The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century (Hayward Publishing, 2015). His first novel, Dedalus, will be published by Henningham Family Press in 2018.

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Gold Medal Winner for Poetry and Special Honors Award for Best of Anthology at the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards

Featuring award-winning poets, including US poet laureate Joy Harjo, Valzhyna Mort and Jackie Kay, cultures as diverse as those of the Ainu people of Japan and the Zoque of Mexico, and poems written in languages that range from the indigenous Ahtna of Alaska to the Shetlandic dialect of Scots, Poems from the Edge of Extinction showcases 50 of the finest poems in endangered languages from across the continents.
Each poem appears in its original form, alongside an English translation, and is accompanied by a commentary introduction about the language, the poet and the poem - in a vibrant celebration of life, diversity, language and the enduring power of poetry.

'Share[s] folklore, songs and a richness of world views with a vivacity that heightens their collective call to protect the planet's linguistic, and cultural, ecosystem.' Financial Times

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Chambers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1473693004
• ISBN 13: 9781473693005
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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