Pàdraig MacAoidh (Peter MacKay)

Ann an Ard-Mhuseaum Bhreatainn

Language: scottish gaelic
Translations: english (In The British Museum), german (Im British Museum)

Ann an Ard-Mhuseaum Bhreatainn

Gabh sinn oirnn, o sheòmar gu seòmar,
a’ togail selfie-an
ann an cumaidhean fhanaideach
a’ faighinn corra plathaidhean
dhen bun-dealbhan sna lòsan:

Venus a’ blaomadh san amar
Dionysus agus a phanthair
agus a bhoc-dheamhan ithyphallic
an rùda sa phreas à Ur
Takhebkhenem ’s am fear-tàileisg na bhoile

agus air a’ mharmor ud, an dèidh lidrigeadh
agus droinneadh, nan taigh-aire,
a’ cheud each, a’ bocadh le uamhas,
a’ giùlain marcaichean gun chinn
tro bhallachan pòrach, neo-phòrach.

© Pàdraig MacAoidh (Peter MacKay)
From: unpublished
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2014
Categories: art & painting

Pàdraig MacAoidh

Peter MacKay

photo © private
* 31.01.1979, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, United Kingdom
lives in: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Pàdraig MacAoidh (Peter MacKay), born 1979, Isle of Lewis, is a writer, academic, broadcaster and native Gaelic speaker from the Outer Hebrides. His texts are influenced by the long and tumultuous history of his birthplace, in which the “names and nouns are relics and scorings of different cultures – Norse, Gaelic, Scottish, Anglo-Saxon”. As such, he writes in Scottish-Gaelic as well as English, and links the traditions of the old languages and the myths and tropes that they transmit, with a present which is marked by constant breaks, a continual changing and remembering.

photo © gezett.de
Mackay has lived in Glasgow, Barcelona, Dublin and Edinburgh and has worked at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, at Trinity College, Dublin, and as a Broadcast Journalist and television news producer for the BBC. He currently works as a lecturer at the University of St. Andrews. In his academic work he has published diverse books on Gaelic, Scottish and Irish poetry and literature. He has translated poems from Spanish, Danish, French and Gaelic into English.

Mackay was nominated for the “Donald Meek” and “Duais Colmchille” Prizes. His poems have been published in diverse magazines.

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