Why I No Longer Write Poems

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By Diana Anphimiadi

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Why I No Longer Write Poems is a boldly inventive collection of collaborative translations showcasing the work of Diana Anphimiadi, one of the most revered Georgian poets of her generation. The poems blend classical allusions with surreal imagery, reviving ancient myths while exploring the boundaries of perception. This playful and witty collection weaves together prayers, recipes, dance lessons, and definitions, offering a unique glimpse of the eternal within the everyday.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary poetry, translation studies, and Georgian literature, as well as those who appreciate experimental and lyrical forms that challenge traditional poetic boundaries.

Diana Anphimiadi is one of the most widely revered Georgian poets of her generation. Georgian-English dual language edition.

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A boldly inventive selection of collaborative translations from one of the most widely revered Georgian poets of her generation. Longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2022.

Diana Anphimiadi's award-winning work reflects an exceptionally curious mind and glides between classical allusions and surreal imagery. She revivifies ancient myths and tests the reality of our senses against the limits of sense. Prayers appear alongside recipes, dance lessons next to definitions. Her playful, witty lyricism offers a glimpse of the eternal in the everyday.

The poems in this selection have been collaboratively translated into English by the leading Georgian translator Natalia Bukia-Peters and award-winning British poet Jean Sprackland. A chapbook selection of their translations of Anphimiadi's work, Beginning to Speak, was published in 2018 and praised by Adham Smart in Modern Poetry in Translation for capturing the 'electricity of Anphimiadi's language' which 'crackles from one poem to the next in Bukia-Peters and Sprackland's fine translation'.

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Critically acclaimed for its formal range and subversiveness, the collection blends classical images and myths with contemporary poetic techniques. Matt Janney of The Calvert Journal praises Anphimiadi's ability to expand the boundaries of poetic form, creating an "accumulation of the unspoken everyday" that forms a compelling poetic bricolage.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780375472

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 February 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Edition: Bilingual ‘facing page’ edition

Contributors:

Translated by Jean Sprackland
Translated by Natalia Bukia-Peters

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 160

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About the Author

Diana Anphimiadi is a poet, publicist, linguist and teacher. She has published four collections of poetry in Georgian: Shokoladi (Chocolate, 2008), Konspecturi Mitologia (Resume of Mythology, 2009), Alhlokhedvis Traektoria (Trajectory of the Short-Sighted, 2012) and Chrdilis Amoch'ra (Cutting the Shadow, 2015). Her poetry has received prestigious awards, including first prize in the 2008 Tsero (Crane Award) and the Saba Prize for the best first collection in 2009. Her chapbook, Beginning to Speak, was published in 2018 by the Poetry Translation Centre, and Why I No Longer Write Poems, the first full-length Georgian-English selection of her poetry, is published by Bloodaxe Books with the Poetry Translation Centre in 2022, both titles translated by Natalia Bukia-Peters and Jean Sprackland. She lives in Tblisi with her son.