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Robin Robertson

Annunciation

  • 1 The Park Drunk | Translations: de
  • 2 Abandon | Translations: de
  • 3 At Roane Head | Translations: de
  • 4 Annunciation | Translations: de
  • 5 The Fishermen’s Farewell | Translations: de
  • 6 The Shelter | Translations: de
  • 7 Glass of Water and Coffee Pot | Translations: de
  • 8 Beside Loch Iffrin
Language: english
Translations: german (Verkündigung)
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Annunciation

after Fra Angelico
 

He has come from the garden, leaving
no shadow, no footprint in the dew.
They hold each other’s gaze at the point
of balance: everything streaming
towards this moment, streaming away.

A word will set the seed
of life and death,
the over-shadowing of this girl
by a feathered dark.
But not yet: not quite yet.

How will she remember the silence
of that endless moment?
Or the end, when it all began –
the first of seven joys
before the seven sorrows?

She will remember the aftersong
because she is only human.
One day
she’ll wake with wings, or wake
and find them gone.

© Pan Macmillan
From: Hill of Doors
Picador, 2013
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2014
Categories: life & relationship

Translations:

Language: german

Verkündigung

nach Fra Angelico


Gekommen ist er durch den Garten, kein
Schatten fiel, kein Fuß auf Tau.
Achsen kreuzen ihre Blicke, Linien
Schwebe: alles strömt zu
diesem Augenblick, strömt fort von ihm.

Ein Wort wird den Samen ausbringen
für Leben und Tod,
die gefiederte Dunkelheit, die auch dieses
Mädchen überschatten wird.
Doch nicht jetzt: nicht schon jetzt.

Wie wird sie sich an die Stille
dieses unendlichen Augenblickes erinnern?
Oder an das Ende, als alles seinen Anfang nahm –
die erste der sieben Freuden
vor den sieben Schmerzen?

Sie wird sich erinnern an das Lied nach dem Lied
ist sie doch nicht mehr als ein Menschenkind.
Eines Tages
wird sie mit Flügeln erwachen, wird erwachen
und finden, dass sie verloren sind.

Deutsche Fassung von Ulrike Draesner.
Die Übersetzung entstand während des Übersetzungsworkshops VERSschmuggel im Rahmen des poesiefestival berlin 2014.
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Robin Robertson

photo © gezett.de
* 07.12.1955, Scone, Scotland, United Kingdom
lives in: London, United Kingdom

Robin Robertson’s (born 1955, Scone, Perthshire) poems have their roots in the rich tradition of Greek myths and Celtic folklore. They evoke, in forceful and melodious language, the arresting landscape and nature of north-east Scotland. He has published five collections of poetry and received a number of accolades, including the Petrarca Preis, the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and all three Forward Prizes. Am Robbenkap (Hanser Verlag, 2013) is a German selection translated by Jan Wagner. His selected poems, Sailing the Forest, was published the following year by Picador and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

 photo © gezett.de
As a publisher, Robertson is also an institution in British literature. Among others, he has brought out works by John Burnside, Anne Carson, J.M. Coetzee, Anne Enright, Geoffrey Hill, A.L. Kennedy, Michael Longley and Sharon Olds.

Publications
  • A Painted Field

    Poetry

    Picador, 1997

  • Slow Air

    Poetry

    Harcourt, 2002

  • [as an editor] Mortification. Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame

    HarperCollins, 2004

  • Swithering

    Poetry

    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006

  • [as a translator] Tomas Tranströmer: The Deleted World

    Versions by Robin Robertson

    Enitharmon Press, 2006

  • [as a translator] Euripides: Medea

    Translated by Robin Robertson

    Random House, 2008

  • The Wrecking Light

    Poetry

    Picador, 2010

  • Hill of Doors

    Poetry

    Picador, 2013

  • Am Robbenkap

    Gedichte

    Aus dem Englischen von Jan Wagner [Edition Lyrik Kabinett bei Hanser]

    München: Hanser Verlag, 2013

  • Sailing the Forest

    Poetry

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014

  • [as a translator] Euripides: Bacchae

    Translated by Robin Robertson

    Harper Collins, 2014

Awards
  • 1997 Forward Prize for Best First Collection

  • 1997 Scottish First Book of the Year Award

  • 1997 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize

  • 2006 Forward Prize for Best Collection (for: Swithering)

  • 2004 E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

  • 2009 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (for: "At Roane Head")

  • 2013 Petrarca-Preis

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