Tag: Tony Ullyatt translation

  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…

  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…

  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…

  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…

  Versindaba kompetisie vir vertaalde gedigte (84)   Gisela Ullyatt. Vertaling van Afrikaans in Engels. Vert. deur Tony Ullyatt.   grandpa smokes his last stuyvesant   grandpa crumples like coca-cola can minutes ago his cheeks were still the colour of nectarines he put out his last stuyvesant just before breakfast it was august in the…

  Versindaba kompetisie vir vertaalde gedigte (83)   Gisela Ullyatt. Vertaling van Afrikaans in Engels. Vert. deur Tony Ullyatt.   Before I go   before I go show me the gray   perimeters of my innards the infinity of silver   before I go tame my thorny fields with origami birds   harakiri the silence…