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Peter Boyle

In the Small Hours

  • 1 In the Small Hours | Translations: zhde
  • 2 Why the Minotaur is Always Sad | Translations: de
  • 3 Towns in the Great Desert (11) | Translations: zh
  • 4 The Joys of Mathematics | Translations: de
  • 5 Two Poems by Irene Philologos
  • 6 The tree’s ambition
  • 7 The Banker who owns the stars
Language: english
Translations: chinese (凌晨), german (In den frühen Morgenstunden)
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In the Small Hours

It’s three a.m. in the morning
of a day you won’t enter for so many hours.
Where you are
yesterday’s sunlight still bathes your feet as you walk
and tonight hearing your voice
I worried that one day
I’ll lose my images of all those I love.
Outside the city’s still restless:
taxis alert and shiny as golden birds
waiting for the crumbs of dawn.
At fifty five I know so little how to live.
In cafes across this city
lovers still hold hands
and cups balance on the edges of tables.
Darkness falls around me like soft snow.
Beside the narrow bed
my night-light is staring right into me.
I will hold your voice inside me as long as I can.
When I sleep you’ll go on walking
through a steady explosion of white flowers.

© Peter Doyle
From: What the Painter Saw in Our Faces
Five Islands Press, 2001
ISBN: 864187165
Audio production: The Red Room Company, 2013

Translations:

Language: chinese

凌晨

凌晨三点了
这一天,你不会进入,还有很多小时。
你置身之处
昨天的阳光依然随着你的走动给你洗脚
而今夜听见了你的声音
我担心,有一天
我会失去我爱的所有那些人的形象。
外面,城市依然躁动不安:
出租车警觉、闪亮,像金色鸟
等待黎明的面包屑。
五十五岁了,我对怎么生活,依然知道得太少。
在全城的咖啡馆里
情侣依然手拉着手
杯子在桌边放平。
黑暗仿佛柔雪,在我周围降临。
窄床边
我夜晚的光线直接盯入我的深处。
我要把你的声音留在我体内,能留多久,就留多久。
我睡着时,你会继续前行
穿过一阵稳稳爆炸开来的白色花朵。

欧阳昱 (译) / Ouyang Yu (Übersetzung)
Language: german

In den frühen Morgenstunden

Es ist drei Uhr vormittags, am Morgen
eines Tages, den du so viele Stunden nicht betreten wirst.
Wo du dich be!ndest,
umspült das Sonnenlicht von gestern noch immer deine Füße, wenn
du gehst,
und diese Nacht, als ich deine Stimme hörte,
hat mich gequält, dass ich eines Tages
die Bilder all meiner Lieben verlieren könnte.
Draußen hat die Stadt noch immmer keine Ruhe,
die Taxis, hellwach und glänzend wie Vögel aus Gold,
warten auf die Krumen des Morgens.
Mit Fünfzig weiß ich so gut wie nichts vom Leben.
In Cafés überall in der Stadt
halten Pärchen sich bei der Hand
und Tassen balancieren Tischränder entlang.
Dunkelheit hüllt mich ein wie weicher Schnee.
Neben den schmalen Bett
schaut meine Nachttischlampe starr in mich hinein.
Ich werde deine Stimme festhalten in mir, solange ich kann.
Wenn ich schlafe, wirst du weitergehen
durch eine Zeitlupenexplosion weißer Blumen.

Übersetzt von Norbert Lange
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Peter Boyle

photo © private
* 23.08.1951, Melbourne, Australia
lives in: Sydney, Australia

Peter Boyle was born in Melbourne in 1951. He contracted polio as a young child and spent considerable time in hospitals, and at the age of eleven he moved with his family to Sydney. He attended Riverview College, where he discovered his gift for languages and interest in poetry, and he subsequently completed an Arts degree at the University of Sydney. He has worked as a teacher of English, History and Communications in secondary schools and in technical colleges.

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Boyle’s first book of poetry, Coming Home From the World (1994), won the New South Wales Premier’s Award and the National Book Council Banjo Award. The Blue Cloud of Crying(1997) also won the Banjo Award and the Adelaide Festival Poetry Prize. Besides publishing his own work, Boyle has translated extensively from French and Spanish poets, notably Lorca, Vallejo, Eugenio Montejo and Pierre Reverdy.

Publications
  • Coming Home From the World

    Five Islands Press, 1994

  • The Blue Cloud of Crying

    Hale and Ironmonger, 1997

  • Acceptance of Silent Waters

    Vagabond Press, 2000

  • What the Painter Saw in Our Faces

    Five Islands Press, 2001

  • November in Madrid and other poems

    Picaro Press, 2001

  • Museum of Space

    University of Queensland Press, 2004

  • Reading Borges and other poems

    Picaro Press, 2007

  • The Transformation Boat

    River Road Press, 2008

  • Apocrypha: Texts Collected and Translated by William O’Shaunessy

    Vagabond Press, 2010

Awards
  • 1992 Wesley Michael Wright Poetry Prize

  • 1994 National Book Council 'Banjo' Award

  • 1995 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award

  • 1997 National Book Council 'Banjo' Award

  • 1998 South Australia Festival Award for Poetry

Links
  • Peter Boyle - Poetry International Web

    Website
  • Peter Boyle - Poetry Archive

    Website
  • Peter Boyle - The Poetry Foundation

    Website
  • Peter Boyle - Red Room Company

    Website

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