Translation of a Kind

Authors

  • Máighréad Medbh
  • Mirian Ruffini

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v23i2.197797

Abstract

“Translation of a Kind” by Máighréad Medbh. Written for “Eavan Boland — In Her Many Images”, ABEI Journal 23.2 (2021).

Author Biographies

  • Máighréad Medbh

    Máighréad Medbh has published eight books of poetry and one of nonfiction, and her work has been included in many major Irish and international anthologies. Her latest book is Imbolg (Arlen House, 2020), a double collection that includes a poetic Lockdown Diary of fifty pieces. Máighréad has been widely known as a performance poet since the 1990s, and one of her concerns is textual embodiment. Other interests are narrative and thematic sequences and, currently, poetic essay. Her prose work, Savage Solitude (2013), researches and performs a solitary mind. Narrative verse includes: Tenant (1999), a historical fiction of the Irish famine; and Parvit of Agelast (2016), a verse allegory of social control and ecological collapse, informed by the art of Pauline Bewick, and shortlisted for the Pigott Prize in 2017. Other work includes writing for children, fiction (online as ebooks), a multitude of workshops, curation of events, and an online essay-blog monthly from 2012 -2020. Máighréad has an MA in Poetry Studies from DCU and is currently working on a creative-critical PhD. www.maighreadmedbh.ie

  • Mirian Ruffini

    Mirian Ruffini is a Professor of Higher Education at the Federal University of Technology in Parana (UTFPR) Campus Pato Branco, Department and Coordination of Modern Languages and Literature, DALET/COLET. She works for the Post-Graduate Program in Linguistics and Literature at UTFPR - Campus Pato Branco (PPGL). Ruffini holds a PhD in Translation Studies, MA in Modern Languages and Literature and she is a specialist in English Language and Literature. She has an Undergraduate Degree in Portuguese and English Languages and Teaching. Areas of interest: Literary Translation, Translation Studies, English Language and Corresponding Literature, Comparative Literature.

Imagem editada de Eavan Boland

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Published

23-05-2021

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 2 (2021): ABEI Journal 23.2 Special Issue Eavan Boland — In Her Many Images

Section

Poems For a Poet

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Copyright (c) 2021 Máighréad Medbh; Mirian Ruffini

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How to Cite

Medbh, M. (2021). Translation of a Kind (M. Ruffini , Trans.). ABEI Journal, 23(2), 232-233. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v23i2.197797