Translations! Some poems by Carlos Vitale in Words and Worlds journal

 

Words and Worlds have published three poems by Carlos Vitale alongside my English translations in the Summer Issue.

SUMMER ISSUE / SOMMER AUSGABE 2020

This great online journal focuses on the immigrant experience.

The View from Olympia Anthology

Thrilled to have a poem of mine included in this Olympic anthology, alongside many

wonderful poets and friends. I especially love sharing the page with Carole Bromley.

This was also my very first launch event, thanks to zoom and the pandemic, and it was also a thrill to read and to listen.

Thank you to Joe Williams and to Half Moon Books!

Tuttle Publishing's first Translator Interview

 Interview                          

Tuttle Publishing has interviewed me for their blog. Their first translator interview. Click here to go read it!

Also, read the books. They're fun, informative, and good for your mental health!

New Translation: Forest Bathing

  

My latest translation, Forest Bathing is out this month from Tuttle Publishing, a fantastic book for the times.Take a soothing walk in the woods. Breathe. Hug a tree. Listen.

24 April 2020 (22 years later)

April 24, 2020

                      For Pep, 22 years later

You tried to steal all of my holidays:

your birthday, just days before mine;

Bloomsday forever the anniversary

of your death. Somehow, until today,

Sant Jordi had escaped. Never a holiday – 

none of mine ever were – World Book Day

is now a thing, but then Sant Jordi was mine

by adoption – count the books in my house

dated April 23^rd – and yours by birth: 

Barcelona being the only thing we had

in common when we succumbed to the thrill

of the first kiss, to the knowledge that we had

arrived at our shared doorstep, our first day

of blind choices, so glaringly obvious

in hindsight.

Those six books, because you made it

to a sixth, line the shelf by our bed, the bed

I haven’t slept in since February, since

travelling home to see our daughter fence

and being trapped by this pandemic. Trapped

at home, not home. In a house I never grew up in,

with a father I barely recognize, far from all

those books, from all those Sant Jordis

on my own, with my girls, with you, without you,

on my own.

Here at my home not home I have nothing to hand

which your hand touched, no inscription, no dates,

no declarations of love. This is my seventeenth

Sant Jordi without you, though you never took it

away. It has taken a pandemic. So now, instead

of Sant Jordi, instead of streets full of books and

young people hawking roses, instead of exhaustion

from kilometers shuffled among human currents

flowing past author signings, spending too much

money, weighted by books I will never finish, I am

quarantined, confined. the first Sant Jordi I have

missed. The first Sant Jordi I have spent

just missing you.

kc 23 April 2020
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Two Translated Books: #TuttlePublishing and #NórdicaLibros

Although I have linked these books on my Professional Page, I thought I'd give them space here as well.
Thanks to Tuttle Publishing and to Nórdica Libros for trusting me with these wonderful illustrated books.


     

Blue Breeze in The Beach Hut

So very pleased to have my hard-to-place poem Blue Breeze
@TheBeachHut7, a fantastic online collection of seaworthy poetry and prose.
The image chosen to accompany my poem is also amazing. h/t @JPlenio 

Today @TheBeachHut7 we have a #poem by Kymm Coveney @KymmInBarcelona #BlueBreeze and what a gem it is! 🌊#writingforwellness #coastalinspired #WritingCommunity #poetry https://t.co/i5S3q38Zux

— The Beach Hut (@TheBeachHut7) March 9, 2020

Three Poems in The Blue Nib #40

Three of my poems have been included in The Blue Nib, issue #40.

Looping Gravity
Cauldron Song
Aftermath





I read them at Ateneu La Base for PoémameBCN. See the review.

Cauldron Song was also Highly Commended in the 2018 Prole Laureate poetry competition.

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‘Care and Management of a New Year’ @ Ink Sweat & Tears

Proud to start the new year with a poem on Ink Sweat & Tears, a poetry site I’ve followed since #52 began, and longed to publish in. Happy 2020!

Care and Management of a New Year

A hearty thank you to Helen Ivory and Kate Birch and, as always, to Jo Bell and her 52 poetry project.

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A version of this poem was longlisted in the 2017 Amaryllis Christmas and New Year Poetry Competition. Thanks also to Stephen Daniels.