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Simon Patten

Simon Patton reviews 'Translation' by John A. Scott

December 1990–January 1991, no. 127 01 December 1990
This collection is an eclectic one. John A. Scott includes translations from Apollinaire, Ovid, John Clare (a translation from prose) and a little-known contemporary French poet by the name of Emmanuel Hocquard, together with a selection of his own work. This at first dauntingly disparate group appears to be united by the myth of Apollo’s son Orpheus in which creativity and the absence of the be ... (read more)