To tie in with the 72nd anniversary of Windrush, we're delighted to announce that the PBS Summer Translation Choice is this bilingual anthology of Caribbean women poets, co-edited and translated by Loretta Collins Klobah and Maria Grau Perejoan, including thirty-three contemporary Caribbean women poets.
The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El mar no necesita ornamento is the first bilingual anthology of contemporary poetry by women writers of the English- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its Diasporas to be curated in more than two decades.
The anthology presents a selection of work by poets from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and from various Anglophone Caribbean islands and the Diaspora. Each poem is presented first in the original, followed by the translation. Excitingly, the majority of poets have not yet been widely translated or included in a bilingual anthology of this scope.
Loretta Collins Klobah is the author of two poetry collections. The Twelve Foot Neon Woman (Peepal Tree Press, 2011) received the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean poetry and was short-listed for the Forward’s Felix Dennis Prize. She has received many awards, including the Pushcart Prize, the Earl Lyons Award from The Academy of American Poets, and the Pam Wallace Award for an Aspiring Woman Writer. Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies. She lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she is Professor of Caribbean Literature and Creative Writing at The University of Puerto Rico.
Maria Grau Perejoan, holds a doctoral degree in Cultural Studies with an emphasis on Caribbean Literature and Literary Translation from the University of Barcelona, and an MPhil in Cultural Studies from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. She was visiting lecturer at the UWI, St Augustine Campus for three academic years, she then moved on to lecture courses in Translation and Caribbean Literature at the University of Barcelona, and since 2020 she is a Lecturer at the Department of Spanish, Modern and Classical Languages at the University of the Balearic Islands.
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