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Jemma Borg

Relic

  • 1 How it is with the circle | Translations: de
  • 2 The mathematician | Translations: de
  • 3 A short treatise on a squid | Translations: de
  • 4 Chromatography | Translations: de
  • 5 Relic | Translations: de
  • 6 Nocturne | Translations: de
  • 7 The lover of Amazonian catfish | Translations: de
  • 8 St Elmo's fire | Translations: de
  • 9 Watching the fisherman at night, Tung Chung
  • 10 Lookout over Happy Valley
Language: english
Translations: german (Relikt)
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Relic

Bell Laboratories, New jersey, 1965

One whole year on our hands and knees,
clearing pigeons from the curious ear
of the antenna, listening for silence

under the city's noise and the pulsar's roar
and still this sound as weather makes at a door,
a low worry everywhere, burrowing

into the hours from the immovable darkness,
uncurling its strong horsehead,
until we catch it, finally, as a telescope does

in its wide dish, until we hear it
for what it is: this sound of creation
whose infinitesimal enormity

is now a thin travelling irritation;
this sound of time clocking on
               and now corroded into this radio hiss.

© Eyewear Publishing
From: The Illuminated World
London: Eyewear Publishing, 2014
Audio production: Haus für Poesie, 2016
Categories: time

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Language: german

Relikt


Bell Labaratories, New Jersey, 1965

Ein ganzes Jahr auf Händen und Knien,
putzten die Tauben aus dem gierigen Ohr
der Antenne, lauschten der Stille unter dem Lärm

der Stadt und dem Brüllen des Pulsars und immer
noch dieses Geräusch, wie Wind unter der Tür,
ein tiefer Kummer überall, gräbt sich aus unbewegter

Dunkelheit in die Stunden, lässt seinen mächtigen
Pferdekopf los, bis wir es einfangen, endlich,
so wie ein Teleskop es macht in seiner breiten

Schüssel, bis wir es hören als das, was es ist:
Dieses Geräusch der Schöpfung,
dessen infinitesimale Ungeheuerlichkeit

fortwirkt in leiser Irritation:
dieses Geräusch vertickender Zeit,
        jetzt korrodiert zu diesem Radio-Gezisch.

Übersetzung: Matthias Kniep und Nadja Küchenmeister
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Jemma Borg

photo © Anne-Sophie Olive
* 09.10.1970, Billericay, Essex, United Kingdom
lives in: Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom

Jemma Borg was born in Essex. She took a first in zoology at Oxford, where she also completed a doctorate in evolutionary genetics. She has worked as a science editor and writer, research administrator in the charity sector, environmental campaigner and teacher, and has lived and worked in places including Australia, Pakistan and Hong Kong.

Her poems have been widely published in magazines including Poetry Review, Poetry London and Stand, and in anthologies including I am twenty people! (Enitharmon, 2007), Oxford Poets Anthology 2007 (Oxford Poets/Carcanet, 2007), Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam (Eyewear/Cinnamon 2012) and The Poets’ Quest for God (Eyewear, 2014).
She has received prizes, or been shortlisted, in competitions including the Kent and Sussex Open Poetry Competition, the Bridport, Mslexia Poetry Competition, Smith/Doorstop Pamphlet Competition and the Jane Martin Poetry Prize. She won the New Writing Ventures Award for Poetry in 2007 and was a resident at the Leighton Artists’ Colony at the Banff Centre in Canada in 2009. Her first collection, The Illuminated World, is out from Eyewear in October 2014. She currently lives in East Sussex with her husband and young son.

 photo © Anne-Sophie Olive
Publications
  • This little stretch of life

    Hearing Eye/Poetry School, 2006

  • I am twenty people! Poetry School Anthology

    Enitharmon, 2007

  • Oxford Poets Anthology 2007

    Oxford: Oxford Poets/Carcanet, 2007

  • Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam

    [anthology]

    London: Eyewear Publishing, 2012

  • The Illuminated World

    London: Eyewear Publishing, 2014

Awards
  • 2007 New Writing Ventures Award

  • Fledgling Award

  • 2017 Rialto/RSPB Nature and Place Competition

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