One of the issues with being half-learned is that one can fall into traps and tasks that are more difficult than you expected. This week I thought, why don’t I translate some Mallarmé? Alternate voice here Dave Moore had given me a book on him for my birthday (which I haven’t had time to read … Continue reading Saint (Cecilia) and Translating Mallarmé
It’s time to look back on the past season and to look once more at the most listened to and liked pieces over that time. We do this in the classic count-down method, moving from the 10th most popular to the most popular piece. This time I’m going to link to the original post each … Continue reading Fall 2019 Parlando Top Ten, numbers 10-8
Long-time readers here will know that the Parlando Project has been performing a section of T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” each year to celebrate National Poetry Month.* It’s been a major task, and if one were to listen to all those past sections, you’d get a fair sample of the variety of original music … Continue reading Death by Water
For those that have been following our look at English poet Frances Cornford, we’ll have at least one more example coming of her stuff soon. But now is the time when we count-down the ten most liked and listened to pieces from this past winter. It’s been a slightly difficult season for this project for … Continue reading Winter 2020 Parlando Top Ten, numbers 10-8
Long time readers will know the Parlando Project is generally about the encounter with, and performance with music, of other people’s words. But I have mixed in words I’ve written here from time to time. Today’s piece combines both threads. I wrote it, but it was engendered by reading another poet who publishes online as … Continue reading Do Not Frighten the Garden
I started out this January trying to translate Rimbaud, and it’s only as the month is ending that I’ve finally got something to present. Why was this such a struggle? Well, some of it’s me. I’m having a harder time this winter keeping up this project, and by focusing recently on translation I’ve only made … Continue reading Rimbaud’s Eternity
Frank Hudson 