Poetry translation competition & recording

category: Writing
by Soph,

It seems I’ve had another rather long spell of silence on the blogosphere. I completely forgot to renew my fribblejunk.org domain name, so I’ve sadly become simply fribblejunk.jk-digital.com - I could always buy it again, but really the site isn’t as active as it has been, and I think I’ll get just as many visitors without the domain name. University has been busy; lots of musical activities as usual, and lots of reading and work. At the moment we’re doing Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (just the first two books) in my English lit module. It’s a great text and I’m enjoying it, but it does take a long time to read.

Regarding the song I spoke about in my last blog (all those weeks ago), I’m going to a nearby town with the chamber choir on Sunday, to make a recording of all of the Shakespeare songs we’re doing at the moment, as well as a couple of other pieces accompanied by a string quartet. It should be fun! We’re going back to a church where we had a weekend away last term; the acoustics are wonderful there so it should sound great on the CD.

I’m thinking of entering this poetry translation competition. I’ve done quite a few literal translations now in one of my English and French comparative modules, and I’d quite like to have a go at writing something more poetic for my own pleasure. I thought I might as well enter the competition while I was at it - could be fun.

Other than that, not much literary news from me - I’m on holiday in a week so hopefully I’ll be doing much more writing and reading then, and more blogging!

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Comments

2 Comments so far

strugglingwriter | 10 March 2008, 16:07
Good to have you back. Just stopping in to say hello!
John | 20 March 2008, 17:19
Alas! My RSS feeds are directed at fribblejunk.org, so I did not realise you had posted. I’ll need to fix that. Glad you’ve managed to finish reading Faerie Queene now, sounded like quite an epic read. And as for the recording, I can’t wait for the CD to come out, I wanna listen! Hope that you do enter the competition, I think you could do really well in it. xXx

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