Manuela Perteghella

Eugenia Loffredo

Translation is a journey - a journey undertaken by the text, hopping around the world and mischievously border-crossing from one language to another, from one culture to another. For a translator, this journey can become a truly creative engagement with the otherness of the source text, an experience of self-discovery leading to understanding and enrichment, and ultimately towards a new text. This singular literary 'experiment' intends to magnify the idiosyncrasy of this translational journey. In the process translation reveals itself as an increasingly creative activity rather than simply a linguistic transfer. This volume consists of twelve translations of one poem: 'Les Fenêtres' by the French poet Apollinaire. The translators embarking on this project, all from different backgrounds and working contexts (poets, professional translators, academics, visual artists), were asked to engage with the inherent multimodality of this poem - inspired by Robert Delaunay's Les Fenêtres series of paintings. The result is a kaleidoscopic diversity of approaches and final products. Each translation is accompanied by self-reflective commentary which provides insight into the complex process and experience of translation, enticing the reader to join this journey too.

Re-writing "Les Fenêtres" by Apollinaire

One Poem in Search of a Translator

Ricarda Vidal

Home on the Move explores notions of 'home' that are challenged and reshaped by unprecedented migration. The anthology interrogates ideas of home, belonging and language from poetic perspectives. The creative responses are the results of a journey undertaken by two poems about 'home': poet Deryn Rees-Jones' poem 'HOME' who traveled from the UK via France to Spain and back and Polish poet Rafal Gawin's poem: 'DOM. KONSTRUKCJA W PROCESIE SADOWYM' ('Home. Structure on Trial'). Gawin traveled to the UK via Romania and back to Poland and the poems reflects the inspiration of these places. During each journey, the poems were translated by a literary translator and a local film artist.

Manuela Perteghella

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