Kim Moore and Maya. C.Popa ― Presented and translated by Virginie Trachsler

The poems presented here in translation were both written during the pandemic. Though they are not retrospective, they clearly expose the pandemic as an event that cut our shared timeline in two: there is a time before, and there will be a time after. Kim Moore’s poem ‘To My Daughter’ was one of fi...

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Autore principale: Trachsler, Virginie
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Angles 2024
Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto:The poems presented here in translation were both written during the pandemic. Though they are not retrospective, they clearly expose the pandemic as an event that cut our shared timeline in two: there is a time before, and there will be a time after. Kim Moore’s poem ‘To My Daughter’ was one of five poems commissioned by Ledbury Poetry Festival for their Poetry of the Lockdown event which took place online in July 2020 and featured a selection of ‘lockdown-inspired’ poems. ‘To My Daughter’ ...