Translated by Sean O’Brien and Daniel Hahn.
This week’s poem is by Corsino Fortes from Cape Verde. The poem is read first in English translation by Sean O’Brien and then in Portuguese by Corsino Fortes.
Corsino Fortes’s first book Pão & Fonema [Bread & Phoneme] which appeared in 1974 made an immediate impact. 1974 was a momentous year for Portugal and its African colonies as it was the year in which Portugal’s dictator Salazar was overthrown, an act which began the process that led to the decolonisation of the Cape Verde Islands in 1975.
You can buy a copy of our Corsino Fortes Chapbook from the PTC website.
This is part of our new rebranded weekly release: the Dual Poetry Podcast, one poem in two languages from the Poetry Translation Centre. As ever we will be releasing a translated poem each week.
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