Samuel Wagan Watson

a prelude

poèmes

• 1 the crooked men | traductions: de
• 2 a prelude | traductions: de
• 3 carefree | traductions: de
• 4 the dusk sessions | traductions: de
• 5 fire | traductions: de
• 6 untitled | traductions: de
• 7 when dogs gamble | traductions: de
• 8 valley man | traductions: de
• 9 itinerant blue
• 10 3 a.m. escape | traductions: de

langue: anglais

traductions: allemand (ein vorspiel)

a prelude

dropping a knife
on one's foot
is nothing like
dropping tequilla
on one's tongue

yet
her floral dress
begged me to…

where as the night
well,
it just stayed outside

traductions:

langue: allemand

ein vorspiel

sich ein messer
auf den fuß
fallen zu lassen
ist gar nicht wie
sich tequila
auf die zunge
fallen zu lassen

doch
ihr blumiges kleid
forderte mich auf zu…

die nacht hingegen
nun,
sie blieb einfach draußen

Samuel Wagan Watson

* 01.01.1972, Brisbane, Australie
Réside à: , Australie

Samuel Wagan Watson was born in Brisbane in 1972, of Irish, German and Aboriginal (Bundjalung and Birri Gubba) ancestory. He has been a salesman, public relations officer, fraud investigator, graphic artist, labourer, law clerk, film industry technician and an actor. He is currently a project officer in the Strategic Policy and Research Unit of Arts Queensland.

Watson’s first collection, Of muse, meandering and midnight (1999) won the David Unaipon Award for Emerging Indigenous Writers. His subsequent collections are Itinerant Blues (2001) and Hotel Bone (2001). He is also co-author of the award-winning website blackfellas, whitefellas, wetlands, commissioned by the Brisbane City Council.

Watson describes his influences in writing as Nick Cave, Tom Waites, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski and the Australian poet Robert Adamson. The Aboriginal elements in his poetry take their place within contemporary, often urban, landscapes, marked by a dramatic or surrreal intensity, which suggests energies at play in them which are barely contained within their forms.

The imagery has a strong emblematic quality, and is marked by unexpected juxtapositions which combine the technological and the mythical, and virtual realities with those of the natural world. There is a strong social and political dimension to the poetry, implicit in many of the situations portrayed in the poems, in the treatment of personal memories, and in the identifications made with the poor, the itinerants, or the fugitive characters which feature in his work.

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