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In his interview with Glyn Pursglove for Poetry Wales, volume 19 no. 2, in 1983 Chris Torrance gave a picture of what it was like for him to come to Wales in 1970. He came \u2018fresh and unknowing, with an enthusiasm unsullied by any prejudice or knowledge about Wales, unanticipating what was actually going to come.\u2019 In his pursuit of history, geography and geology he recalled one particular midnight expedition which he came to see as his key into the \u2018Matter of Wales\u2019:<\/p>\n
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Ian Brinton\u2019s most recent publications include Language and Death<\/em>, a translation of poems by Philippe Jaccottet (Equipage, 2022), a translation of\u00a0 Paul Val\u00e9ry\u2019s Selected Poems<\/em>, (Muscaliet Press, 2021, with a Preface by Michael Heller), Paris Scenes<\/em>, a translation of Baudelaire\u2019s \u2018Tableaux Parisiens\u2019, (Two Rivers Press, 2021) and Islands of Voices<\/em>, the selected poems of Douglas Oliver (Shearsman Books, 2020). His translation of de Nerval\u2019s Les Chim\u00e8res<\/em> is due to appear shortly from Muscaliet Press. He reviews for The London Magazine<\/em>, PN Review<\/em>, Litter<\/em>, Long Poem Magazine<\/em> and Golden Handcuffs Review<\/em>. He co-edits the magazine SNOW<\/em> and is closely involved in running the archive of modern poetry at Cambridge University Library.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2018slowness & slow laps, say, around a center\u2019 (Robert Creeley to Charles Olson) In his interview with Glyn Pursglove for Poetry Wales, volume 19 no. 2, in 1983 Chris Torrance gave a picture of what it was like for him to come to Wales in 1970. He came \u2018fresh and unknowing, with an enthusiasm unsullied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[66,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-232","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7876"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8276,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions\/8276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Click here to go back to:\u00a0Contributors and Links to Pages 1 – 4<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"