Jane Draycott’s superb modern translation catches all the moving power and lyrical beauty of the original, and its spiritual power and consolation. He writes of his grief at the death of his two-year old daughter, Pearl, and how he dreams of seeing and speaking with her in a garden, where he learns that she is now living in heaven as a Bride of Christ. Pearl is a beautiful and moving medieval poem by the anonymous poet who also wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Her translation of the 14th-century Pearl is a PBS Recommendation and winner of a Stephen Spender Prize for Translation. Poet interview HERE Meet Jane in person: Thursday 8 November A tutor on postgraduate writing programmes at Oxford University and the University of Lancaster, her published works include Prince Rupert’s Drop and The Night Tree. 8 November at 6.30 p.m., Michael Schmidt, a founder-director will chair the discussion with poets Jane Draycott and Jenny Lewis talk theme: Claiming the Great Tradition: Women Recalibrate the Classics. In 2000 it was named the Sunday Times millennium Small Publisher of the Year. Carcanet Press primarily publishes poetry. The tenth and last talk of this year’s inaugural BookBlast® 10×10 tour, a nationwide celebration of independent publishing is featuring Carcanet Press which was conceived at Pin Farm, South Hinksey, Oxford, in 1969 by Peter Jones, Gareth Reeves and Michael Schmidt.
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