James Sutherland-Smith

17. 6. 1948
Edinburgh (Škótsko)
Genre:
poetry
Home country:
United Kingdom
Nationality:
United Kingdom

Complete list of works

 

POETRY

Four Poetry and Audience Poets    

P&A, Leeds  

1971

A Poetry Quintet                 

Gollancz, London  

1976

The Death of Orpheus              

Words Etc., London 

1976

Trapped Water                     

Earthgrip, London

1977

Death of a Vixen                  

Many Press, London 

1978

A Singer from Sabiya              

Many Press, London 

1979

Naming of the Arrow               

Salamander Imprint, London   

1981

The Country of Rumour             

Many Press, London 

1984

At the Skin Resort                

Arc Publications, Todmorden  

1998

New Poetries III             

Carcanet, Manchester

2002

In the Country of Birds           

Carcanet, Manchester

2003

Popeye in Belgrade

Carcanet, Manchester              

2008

Mouth

The River and the Black Cat

Small Scale Observations

The Bead of Blood

Shearsman, Bristol

Shearsman, Bristol

Shearsman, Bristol

F.A.C.E. Prešov

2014

2018

2022

2022

 

 

 

Translated into Slovak

 

 

Pomenovanie šip: Selected Poems of J S-S translated by Ján Gavura

Ticha voda, Košice                              

2002

Melónové dievča: Poems of J S-S translated by Ján Gavura

Slniečko združenie, Prešov

2009

Pazurík: New and Selected Poems 

by J S-S translated by Ján Gavura

Európsky dom dom poézie , Košice

2013

 

TRANSLATIONS (with Viera Sutherland-Smith except where stated)

 

Not Waiting for Miracles  

(with Štefánia Allen and V S-S)

Modrý Peter, Levoca

1993

Slovenský balady: translations for album cover for folk songs recorded by Zuzana Homolová

Pavian records, Bratislava

1995

Swallowing a Hair: Poems by Ján Ondruš  (with Martin Solotruk)            

Studna,  Bratislava                               

1998 

Tatranský Národný Park: Landscape photographs and text by Dionýz Dugas

Dino, Prešov

1998

An Album of Slovak Writers        

Narodné Literárné Centrum, Bratislava

2000

100 Years of Slovak Literature                                                           

Bratislava/Slovenia                              

 2000 

Cranberries in Ice: Selected Poems of Ivan Laucík                              

Modry Peter, Canada         

 2001                           

The Melancholy Hunter: Selected Poems of Ján Buzassy     

Modry Peter, Canada         

 2001                           

Autumnal Furniture: Aphorisms of Juraj Briškar

Modry Peter, Canada                          

2002

Scent of the Unseen  Selected Poems of Mila Haugová                         

Arc Publications, Todmorden, UK   

2002

An Album of Slovak Writers II     

Narodné Literárné Centrum, Bratislava

2002

An Album of Slovak Writers III

Narodné Literárné Centrum, Bratislava

2004

In Search of Beauty: An Anthology of Contemporary Slovak Poetry in English

Bolchazy-Carducci, USA 

2004

Across the Brazilian Jungle: Rudolf Schuster’s travels in Brazil

Eduard Sattzler, Canada

2004

Oh , Children Smeared with Honey and with Blood: Essay by Ivan Štrpka in Writing Europe

Ed. Ursula Keller and Ilma Rakusa CEU, Budapest, New York                

2004

 And That’s the Truth: Selected Poems of Milan Rúfus

Bolchazy-Carducci, USA

 

 

2005

 

 

Smrť Kriváňa: translation of poem by Hviezodoslav for book of landscape photographs by Karol Kállay

 

by James Sutherland-Smith alone

Selected Poems of Mária Ferenčuhová

The Other Monk: Selected Poems of Ján            Gavura (translated with Ján Gavura)

Eternal Traffic: Poems by Mila Haugová  

 

CRITICAL WORK

Both Roads Taken: British Poetry from 1896 to 1953

 

 

LITERARY ACTIVITIES IN SERBIA

Translated into Serbian

Reka i crna mačka

Translated by Ivanka Radmanović

Translation of Serbian Poets

Dinner with Fish and Mirrors: Selected Poems of Ivana Milankova

(with Zorica Petrović

Selected Poems of Miodrag Pavlović         

(with Nenad Aleksić)

The Long Awaited Day: Selected Poems of Rajko Dzaković

(with Ivanka Radmanović)

 

 

 

Slovart, Bratislava

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shearsman Books, Bristol, UK

F.A.C.E. Prešov

 

Arc Publications, Todmorden, UK

 

 

 

 

Vydavateľstvo Prešovskej univerzity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gramatik, Belgrade

 

 

Arc Publications, Todmorden, UK            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2008

2018

2019

 

2019

 

 

2013

 

 

 

 

2019

 

 

2013

 

 

 

2014

 

 

 

2018

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLES

Death and the Unmaidenly - PN Review 120

Merrill Merrill and Co – PN Review 146

Memory and Her Fearsome Daughters - PN Review 173

18 ‘Letters’ from Slovakia and Belgrade – from PN Review 126 to PN Review 199

Illumination and Opacity: Notes on the Essays of Geoffrey Hill - London Magazine

Being There - on the experience of being an ex-patriate poet - Poetry Review 

As Lennon Says - on Slovak poetry during the Velvet Revolution - Poetry Review 

Really Out of the Loop: on the poetry of John Welch - Swansea Review 

 Living and Working in Libya – San Jose Studies

A Train Journey to Bratislava - An Account of the Velvet Revolution – San Jose Studies

Literary Irony and the Slovak Folk Tradition -  the University of Silesia in 1996 in Culture and Identity edited by Suzanne Stern-Gillet et al. Wydawnnictwo Uniwersytetu Œláskiego, Katowice 

Losing My Voice - Exile edited by Suzanne Stern-Gillet et al. Wydawnnictwo Uniwersytetu Šláskiego, Katowice 2000 and by Edwin Mellen 2003

The Movement: Britain’s Evil, Little Empire? – Enter, Košice, Slovakia 2013

A Necessary Institution? on the Poetry Society –The Bowwow Shop 2011