Today I celebrate British partnership with Romanian poetry!
One of the internet treasures I have found is to Contemporary Literature Press, the online publishing house at the University of Bucharest which offers bilingual (Romanian and English) presentations of both classical and contemporary work. The creators say this about themselves:
The Contemporary Literature Press, under The University of Bucharest,
in conjunction with The British Council, The Romanian Cultural Institute,
and The Embassy of Ireland.
We publish poetry, fiction, drama and criticism, in the original and in translation,
whether English or Romanian.
We are a well-fused group of staff and graduate students,
very enthusiastic about our work.
This particular link from Contemporary Literature Press celebrates British-Romanian week and includes a poem with a bit of mathematics by Australian-born, London-resident poet Katherine Gallagher; I offer it here and invite you also to visit its Romanian translation.
Take-Off by Katherine Gallagher
(after a line by Derek Walcott)
Have you seen the way the day grows
around you, neither perpendicular
nor horizontal—
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