[Janice D. Soderling]

What with the annual Eratosphere Translation event just around the corner, this Southbank World Poetry event seems particularly inviting.

I want to ask if any of our UK friends will be attending this event at South Bank (or maybe even participating) and if so are willing to pass on to the rest of us some news about the festivities.


http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co....rnassus-events

http://magmapoetry.com/poetry-whats-...agma+Poetry%29

[Terese Coe]

Janice,

Poetry Review (UK) asked me if they could make multi-copies of the poem they published in their current issue, "More," and drop them all over London as part of the "Reign of Poems." Did I say yes!!!

What an inspiring idea, and according to Katy Evans-Bush's blog, it seems to have made a lot of people happy (as soon as they realized nothing was being sold)...But don't take my word for it, read here:

http://baroqueinhackney.com/2012/06/...eign-of-poems/

[Janice D. Soderling]

Hey, that is WONDERFUL. I don't have Poetry Review at present, can we read your poem somewhere.

In a similar vein, I discovered today a mag called Do Not Look at the Sun which does similar things in Paris, sending down poems as airplanes from great heights. I don't know anything about it except what is on the net, but it is intriguing. I love poets who are a little crazy and do happenings-type things. It is listed on Duotrope.

Terese, did you see a thread I had recently at General Announcements about Origami Poetry Project? That is also a project about free distribution of poetry. God bless the grassroots.

Big congrats on your poetry reign. Poetry Review ain't chopped liver.

[Terese Coe]

Many thanks, Janice! I've been so busy I didn't even think to mention this till today, when I emailed my kids about it. The poem is only available in PR at present, but I could send you a copy. Send me your email addy (I think you have an old addy for me, or else put it in a pm to me. I don't have yours.)

The fun thing is that the poem tweaks the noses of Wall Street honchos but in an offbeat way.

No, I didn't read about an origami action. Could you link me to the thread?

[Janice D. Soderling]

http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showth...hlight=origami

This is it, Terese.

My address book was disappeared. I'll PM you my address,

[Andrew Frisardi]

Congrats, Terese, on the poem-drop! How cool to be part of that. I enjoyed Katy's blog entry on the event. And in reading, saw the photo of the lovely Estonian poet Kristiina Ehin. Does anyone (Janice?) know her work? I'm intrigued, not only because she's beautiful but because she sounds like quite a poetry-sensation. I saw there's a translation of her work, The Drums of Silence (2007), translated into English by Ilmar Lehtpere.

[Terese Coe]

Thanks, Andrew! Katy's blog was not as good as being there, but her vivid enjoyment was a palpable boon to the imagination--wish some poem-loving independent pilots would do the same for international poetry everywhere!

[Janice D. Soderling]

Originally Posted by Andrew Frisardi

Congrats, Terese, on the poem-drop! How cool to be part of that. I enjoyed Katy's blog entry on the event. And in reading, saw the photo of the lovely Estonian poet Kristiina Ehin. Does anyone (Janice?) know her work? I'm intrigued, not only because she's beautiful but because she sounds like quite a poetry-sensation. I saw there's a translation of her work, The Drums of Silence (2007), translated into English by Ilmar Lehtpere.

It's been a long time coming, but finally I remembered to answer your question. I have Ehin's collection The Final Going of Snow translated into English by Ilmar Lehtpere.

I don't know much more about her that what Lehtpere tells us in his introduction. "Final Going..." is her fifth collection of poetry and seventh book. "Drums of Silence won the Poetry Society Recommended Translation. She has been translated into twelve languages (and if that ain't enough I agree with you that she is very pretty).

And young. Born in 1977 and she earns her living as a poet. We can all put that in our collective pipe and smoke it!

I didn't acquire her book through diligence or perception of my own. It was a perk from MPT (Modern Poetry in Translation to which I susbcribe) and I am forever grateful to them for that.

I remembered your question because I am currently reading a book by one of her countrymen, the excellent writer Jaan Kross (b. 1920). http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008...ure.obituaries

I am reading in Swedish but the English title is probably "Resistance". I heard a radio interview made shortly before his death (a reprise, in the summer the most delectable bits in the archive are presented in a special program series) and remembered I had it unread on my shelves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan_Kross

This is a 2-for-1 post: two Estonian writers for the price of one question.