Diana Anphimiadi is one of the most widely revered Georgian poets of her generation. Her award-winning work reflects an exceptionally curious mind and glides between classical allusions and surreal imagery. She revivifies ancient myths and tests the reality of our senses against the limits of sense. Boldly inventive, prayers appear alongside recipes, dance lessons next to definitions. Her playful, witty lyricism offers a glimpse of the eternal in the everyday. The poems in this selection have been collaboratively translated into English by the award-winning British poet Jean Sprackland and leading Georgian translator Natalia Bukia-Peters. A chapbook selection of their translations of Anphimiadi’s work, Beginning to Speak, was published in 2018 and praised by Adham Smart in Modern Poetry in Translation for capturing the ‘electricity of Anphimiadi’s language’ which ‘crackles from one poem to the next in Bukia-Peters and Sprackland’s fine translation’. Georgian-English dual language edition. Co-published with the Poetry Translation Centre.
About the author
Jean Sprackland is Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Chair of the Poetry Archive. Her debut collection, Tattoos for Mother’s Day (Spike, 1997), was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Her second collection, Hard Water (Jonathan Cape, 2003), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was shortlisted for the 2003 T.S. Eliot Prize and for the Whitbread Poetry Award. Her third collection, Tilt (Jonathan Cape, 2007), won the Costa Poetry Award. Cape also published Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach, a series of meditations on walking the beaches between Blackpool and Liverpool, which won the Portico Prize. Her most recent collections from Cape are Sleeping Keys (2013) and Green Noise (2018), while her latest prose book is These Silent Mansions: A life in graveyards (Jonathan Cape, 2020). Her co-translation with Natalia Bukia-Peters of Diana Anphimiadi’s Why I No Longer Write Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books with the Poetry Translation Centre in 2022.
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