Friday, January 25, 2008

The Return of The Chimaera

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This time The Chimaera is obsessed with Translation.

Traduttore, Traditore? you ask.

The answer is—Found in Translation!

http://www.the-chimaera.com

But there's general poetry and prose, and a spotlight feature on Tim Murphy's alcoholism poems too: 'A Prayer for Sobriety'.

Poems and prose by L. Ward Abel, Mary Alexandra Agner, Arlene Ang, Neil Carpathios, William Doreski, George Good, Howie Good, Simon Hunt, James Keane, Guy Kettelhack, Don Kimball, David W. Landrum, Ralph La Rosa, Dave McClure, Margaret Menamin, Corey Mesler, Chris O’Carroll, Samuel Prince, Gail White, Peter Wyton, and Donald Zirilli.

Translations by Mark Allinson, Robert Bolick, Antoine Cassar, Catherine Chandler, Debjani Chatterjee, Adam Elgar, B. J. Epstein, Rhina P. Espaillat, Anna Evans, Andrew Frisardi, Susan McLean, Nigel McLoughlin, Chris Mooney-Singh, Aaron Poochigian, Henry Quince, Jennifer Reeser, Wendy Sloan, Janice D. Soderling, Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy.

Lots of high-quality reading in this one. Congratulations to all our authors, especially Dr Debanji Chatterjee, who was awarded an MBE for services to Literature in the Queen's New Year's Honours List.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

The Examiners

John Whitworth's poem 'The Examiners', published in last October's The Chimaera, was placed second in the Times Literary Supplement Foyles poetry competition, judged by readers. 'The Examiners' and other poems by John Whitworth can be found in The Chimaera here:

The Examiners

John's poem 'Not You' was one of TC's Pushcart Nominations:

Not You

And his 'Naughty, Naughty' was a gruesome part of The Shit Creek Horror

John's tenth book of poems Being the Bad Guy is available from Peterloo Poets, here.