Wi the Haill Voice 25 Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky Translated into Scots by Edwin Morgan,9781784104474

Wi the Haill Voice 25 Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky Translated into Scots by Edwin Morgan

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Edition: Bilingual
ISBN13: 9781784104474
ISBN10: 1784104477
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2016-12-01
Publisher(s): Carcanet Press Ltd.
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Summary

Forty-four years after their first publication, Edwin Morgan’s versions of the great twentieth-century Russian futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky are back in print. Wi the haill voice collects twenty-five of Morgan’s translations into Scots, accompanied by his own introduction and glossary.

Author Biography

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (July 19 1893 - 14 April 1930) was a Russian Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and film actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement; being among the signers of the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (1913), and authoring poems such as A Cloud in Trousers (1915) and Backbone Flute (1916). Edwin Morgan was Scotland's first national poet - Scotland's version of the Poet Laureate.

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