Versindaba kompetisie vir vertaalde gedigte (93) Lucas Malan. Vertaling van Afrikaans in Engels. Vert. deur Marieta McGrath. Growing It can’t be helped: the years pile exponentially, you bend, become more grounded and tend towards the earth; It’s just as well you carry all those scars and as time grows, soften…
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Hendrik J. Botha. Vertaling in Engels
Versindaba kompetisie vir vertaalde gedigte (91) Hendrik J. Botha. Vertaling van Afrikaans in Engels. Vert. deur Hendrik J. Botha. Reaping Barely ten years old, chasing a ball you meet a taxi at breakneck speed. All traffic halts at a theatre table where sterile drapes and equipment prepared, follow the line…
Hendrik J. Botha. Vertaling in Engels
Versindaba kompetisie vir vertaalde gedigte (90) Hendrik J. Botha. Vertaling van Afrikaans in Engels. Vert. deur Hendrik J. Botha. Love bar none For thirty years in Hammanskraal you taught students to read and write, wisened them in the arts of science and geography. They looked up to you: schoolteacher, sage, hero….
Elizabeth Bishop. Vertaling in Afrikaans
Versindaba kompetisie vir vertaalde gedigte (89) Elizabeth Bishop. Vertaling van Engels in Afrikaans. Vert. deur Tom Dreyer. Die vis ek vang ‘n allemintige vis en hou hom langs die boot net-net bo die water hoek in sy bek ingebed hy spook nie meer nie het ook nooit hy hang kreunend en…
Gisela Ullyatt. Vertaling in Engels
Versindaba kompetisie vir vertaalde gedigte (88) Gisela Ullyatt. Vertaling van Afrikaans in Engels. Vert. deur Tony Ullyatt. after breakfast from that morning you brought my breakfast on a decrepit tray while summer light destroyed our veranda lavender after I had broken my bread you brought an offering pharmaceutically exact you…
Gisela Ullyatt. Vertaling in Engels
Versindaba kompetisie vir vertaalde gedigte (87) Gisela Ullyatt. Vertaling van Afrikaans in Engels. Vert. deur Tony Ullyatt. the truth about doves in my eighth year the neighbours there move to a swanky suburb the other side Brandkop bridge leaving their dovecote near the quince trees in our backyard its cage…
Gisela Ullyatt. Vertaling in Engels
Versindaba kompetisie vir vertaalde gedigte (86) Gisela Ullyatt. Vertaling van Afrikaans in Engels. Vert. deur Tony Ullyatt. women round a table she remembers the expanse of a festive table under the farm’s willow trees the sun seeping through like maple syrup grandmothers mothers and aunts carrying chairs from the dining room…
Gisela Ullyatt. Vertaling in Engels
Versindaba kompetisie vir vertaalde gedigte (85) Gisela Ullyatt. Vertaling van Afrikaans in Engels. Vert. deur Tony Ullyatt. mystic boer and he comes to pick them up in his baby-blue kombi (a year later the engine’s buggered) behind the windows beige-and-brown curtains possibly nicked from a seventies parsonage the seats definitely from…