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Stephen Spender Special Episode
Our very special collaboration with the Stephen Spender Prize! The Stephen Spender Trust runs an annual competition for poetry in translation, doing very important work promoting translation in the UK. Give this episode a listen to hear the winning poem from the 2021 Open category winner, Harry Man, as well as interviews with Harry and the original Norwegian poet, Endre Ruset, and with judge Khairani Barokka, for an insight into what it is like behind the scenes of the biggest poetry translation competition in the UK.
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Ep. 6 - Translation Competition
In this very special episode we share the results of our very own translation competition! Thanks to funding from the University of St Andrews School of Modern Languages, we were able to focus on the work of three non-anglophone poets working in the world today, and challenge anyone in the world to translate their poems into English. In this episode, you’ll hear the winning translations, as well as an interview with all three poets about working as a non-anglophone poet, about translation, and about how the pandemic affected their work.
We have so many people to thank for this episode, which this little list can hardly do justice:
Poets: Chloé Savoie-Bernard, Xenia Dyakonova, Jairo Martín de la Fuente
Translators: Daniel Clark, Lou Sarabadzic, Huw Davies
Readers: Tahra Sebti, Isabella Redmayne, Zoë Morrison-Griffiths, Claire Borradaile, Melodie Lewis, Axel Kacoutié, Coggin Galbreath, Caitlin Morris, Maddie Lee, Phoebe Mazzier, Rory McGuirk, Charlotte Bae, Reece Anderson, Una McGeough, Don Cellini, Lisa Ireland, Maria Goikhberg
Graphics: Joanna Joannou
Sound Design: Kyra Ho
Original Music: Maxence Fulconis
and everyone who participated. Thank you.
Head to our website at https://www.inanothervoicepodcast.com/episodes/episode-6-translation-competition for more details -
Ep. 5 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz
In this episode we talk about Faiz Ahmed Faiz, a super famous poet who wrote in Urdu and Punjabi. His poetry was innovative and timeless, and the poem we've focused on is the celebrated ہم دیکھیں گے - Hum Dekhenge - We Shall See. We then talk to the brilliant Dr. Rakhshanda Jalil.
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Hum Dhekenge:
ہم دیکھیں گے
لازم ہے کہ ہم بھی دیکھیں گے
وہ دن کے جس کا وعدہ ہے
جو لوحِ ازل پہ لکھا ہے
ہم دیکھیں گے
جب ظلم و ستم کے کوہِ گراں
روئی کی طرح اُ ڑ جائیں گے
ہم محکوموں کے پاوٗں تلے
یہ دھرتی دھڑ دھڑ دھڑکے گی
اور اہلِ حکم کے سر اوُپر
جب بجلی کڑ کڑ کڑکے گی
ہم دیکھیں گے
جب ارضِ خدا کے کعبہ سے
سب بت اُٹھوائے جائیں گے
ہم اہلِ صفا مردودِ حرم
مسند پر بٹھلائے جائیں گے
سب تاج اُچھالے جائیں گے
سب تخت گرائے جائیں گے
بس نام رہے گا اللہ کا
جو غائب بھی ہے حاضر بھی
جو منظر بھی ہے ناظر بھی
اُٹھے گا انالحق کا نعرہ
جو میں بھی ہوں اور تم بھی ہو
اور راج کرے گی خلقِ خدا
جو میں بھی ہوں اور تم بھی ہو
ہم دیکھیں گے
لازم ہے کہ ہم بھی دیکھیں گے
ہم دیکھیں گے
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We shall see
Certainly we shall see
That promised dawn
Etched on the slate of eternity
When the crushing mountain of tyranny
Will blow away like cotton wool
When underneath the feet of the enslaved
This earth's beating heart
Shall tremble and shake
When the lightning
Will strike down those who lord over us
When from the House of Allah
All false gods shall be cast off
We the faithful, the dispossessed
Will rise to our seat of sovereignty
Each crown knocked off, will go
Each throne brought down, will go
Only Allah's name will reverberate
He who is the Seen and the Unseen
The Spectacle and the Witness
And the cry will rise
'I am the Truth'-
And that is me
And that is you
Now,
The Children of God will rule
And that is me
And that is you
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Translator: Zehra Kazmi
Guest: Dr. Rakhshanda Jalil
Sound Design: Kyra Ho
Readers: Shaista Ghazali, Raj Shekar Sen, Sajeea Bhatti, Taniya Hassan, Nia Babaar, Satyabahma Rajoria, Mallika Balakrishnan, and Zehra Kazmi.
Theme Music: Maxence Fulconis