Samuel Wagan Watson

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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 (ohne titel)

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the late shift erupts;
Greek boys in turbo-fitted 4s
open the back streets
                     of bitumen lines built for mice

a gear-crunching
                nightscape howl

simultaneously
              embraced and ejected
into the dire congestion of the city's spectral pitch

like the fading trumpet oratorio
                            of an emphysema-riddled jazz musician

traductions:

langue: allemand

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die spätschicht bricht aus;
griechische jungs in 4-zylinder turbos
öffnen die hintergassen
  der asphaltlinien für mäuse gebaut
ein gang-knirschendes
            aufheulen der nachtlandschaft
gleichzeitig
      geborgen und herausgeschleudert
in die äußerste stockung des stadtlichtspektrums

wie das verebbende trompetenoratorium
       eines emphysemgeblähten jazzmusikers

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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