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Hugh Thomas

Hugh Thomas is a poet and translator based in Fredericton, where he teaches mathematics at the University of New Brunswick. His poetry has appeared in a variety of small press publications such as dig, CRASH, 1cent, and Unarmed. A chapbook of his poetry, Mutations, was published by BookThug in 2006. He has translated St-John Perse's longpoem, Anabase, but most of his translation practices involve working with languages which he knows only slightly or not at all.

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NAIVE TRANSLATION WORKSHOP: TYPE BOOKS SALON SERIES

Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 8:00pm

Type Books

883 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1G5, Canada
416-366-8973

Cost: PWYC

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Hugh Thomas

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Plunder dictionaries, rip verbs, detach language from its origins and birth it anew. Under the direction of homeolinguistic translation poet, Hugh Thomas, you will riff off languages you don’t know, erase whole lines from books, and cut the umbilical of authorship. Come prepared to undo all those years of “book smarts” and replace them with missed-understanding and a naughty need to tamper with someone else’s hard-earned words. Have a book on the shelf that you don’t understand? Bring it along and pilfer away!

Submitted by aaron on May 30, 2008 - 2:49pm.
Submitted by aaron on June 1, 2008 - 6:57pm.

 

 

 

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