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  1. Can ye wheeple
    Nocturnes frae a rone-pipe flute?

    “Morgan brings out sonorities audible in the Russian but beyond the scope of standard English” – Carol Rumens on Morgan’s Scots translation of Mayakovsky’s “А вы могли бы?”

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    theguardian.com/books/2017/oct

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #translation #InternationalTranslationDay #Scots #Scotslanguage #Russian #EdwinMorgan #Mayakovsky

  2. Forcryinoutloud!
    The starns licht up—aa richt:
    does that prove some loon hud to hae it?

    Nicole Rudick in the Paris Review on WI THE HAILL VOICE – Morgan’s translations of 25 poems by Mayakovsky into Scots

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    theparisreview.org/blog/2017/0

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #translation #InternationalTranslationDay #Scots #Scotslanguage #Russian #EdwinMorgan #Mayakovsky

  3. “The use of Scots, apart from the relative ease of working up the right atmosphere, also helps (though dangerously) because of the verbal freedom it confers on a harassed translator”

    —Edwin Morgan on translating Mayakovsky into Scots

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    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #translation #InternationalTranslationDay #Scots #Scotslanguage #Russian #EdwinMorgan #Mayakovsky

  4. Can ye wheeple
    Nocturnes frae a rone-pipe flute?

    “Morgan brings out sonorities audible in the Russian but beyond the scope of standard English”

    —Carol Rumens on Edwin Morgan’s #Scots translation of Mayakovsky’s “А вы могли бы?”

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    #Scottish #literature #poetry #translation #Scotslanguage #EdwinMorgan #Mayakovsky #InternationalTranslationDay

    theguardian.com/books/2017/oct

  5. “This poem gets, via the heart of all theatre, to the heart of the communal in all the arts, and to the heart of form, the heart of voice and silence and to the heart of a kind of life that will never actually stop”
    —Ali Smith

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay

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    Listen to Ian McKellen read Edwin Morgan’s “Instructions to an Actor”, in which Shakespeare gives instructions to the boy actor playing Hermione in THE WINTER’S TALE:

    tumblr.com/catullus101/6535243

  6. Now, boy, remember this is the great scene.
    You’ll stand on a pedestal behind a curtain,
    the curtain will be drawn, and then you don’t move
    for eighty lines; don’t move, don’t speak, don’t breathe.
    I’ll stun them all out there, I’ll scare them,
    make them weep, but it depends on you…

    —Edwin Morgan, “Instructions to an Actor”

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay

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