Genre: Poetry

Imprint: Moving Words


Translated from the French by Patrick Williamson

This anthology of translated poems aims to present English-speaking readers with poems and voices that enable them to deepen their appreciation of the wealth of poetry in the French language from the African continent and serve as a point of departure to explore the writers in more detail.

Book Details

Language: ‎English
Hardcover: ‎96 pages
ISBN: ‎978-8196395902
Formats: Paperback | Kindle | International
Price: ₹350 | ₹249 | $7.49

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Patrick Williamson_ANTONYM

Patrick Williamson is an English poet and translator. Most recent poetry collections: Traversi (English-Italian, Samuele Editore, 2018), Beneficato (SE, 2015), Gifted (Corrupt Press, 2014), Nel Santuario (SE, 2013; Menzione speciale della Giuria in the XV Concorso Guido Gozzano, 2014). Editor and translator of The Parley Tree, Poets from French-speaking Africa and the Arab World (Arc Publications, 2012) and translator notably of Max Alhau (France), Tahar Bekri (Tunisia), Gilles Cyr (Quebec), as well as Italian poets Guido Cupani and Erri de Luca. Recent translations in Transference, Metamorphoses, The Tupelo Quarterly, and poems in The Black Bough, The Fortnightly Review notably. Long Standing collaborator with artists’ book publisher Transignum, member of the editorial committee of La Traductière, and founding member of transnational literary agency Linguafranca.

Read some of his translated works.


The Antonym poetry session – Memories of Displacement: Poetry beyond Borders featuring Patrick Williamson, Samantha Terrell, Pasquale Verdicchio and Jishnu Sen.