User:Bibliosporias

I'm no great linguist, I'm afraid — aside from my native English I speak French, German, and Greek reasonably well (once I've got back into the swing of them), and have a smattering of Irish, Japanese, and Mandarin. My main interest here arises from my work translating poetry; I mainly translate from modern Greek, and have published translations from Seferis, Kavafis, Karyotakis, and Doros Loizou, but I also translate from German, having published poems by Gustav Sack. I've tried my hand at French poetry, though somehow, despite French being probably my strongest second language, I've not had much luck. I also produce reversionings of poetry from Bengali (Tagore) and Chinese, using bridge translations, but also doing as much research as I can. Wiktionary has proved to be a useful resource in the past, so I'm pleased to be able to contribute to it, in however minor a way.

• My poetry pages