Gold Medal Winner for Poetry and Special Honours Award for Best of
Anthology at the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards. One language is falling
silent every two weeks. Half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the
world today will be lost by the end of this century. With the loss
of these languages, we also lose the unique poetic traditions of
their speakers and writers. Poems from the Edge of Extinction
gathers together 50 poems in languages from around the world that
have been identified as endangered; it is a celebration of our
linguistic diversity and a reminder of our commonalities and the
fundamental role verbal art plays in human life around the world.
With poems by influential, award-winning poets such as US poet
laureate Joy Harjo, Hawad, Valzhyna Mort, and Jackie Kay, this
anthology offers a unique insight into both languages and poetry,
taking the reader on an emotional, life-affirming journey into the
culture of these beautiful languages. Each poem appears in its
original form, alongside an English translation, and is accompanied
by a commentary about the language, the poet and the poem - in a
vibrant celebration of life, diversity, language, and the enduring
power of poetry. This timely collection is passionately edited by
widely published poet and UK National Poetry Librarian, Chris
McCabe, who is also the founder of the Endangered Poetry Project, a
major project launched by London's Southbank Centre to collect
poetry in the world's disappearing languages, and introduced by Dr
Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Director of the Endangered Languages
Documentation Programme and the Endangered Languages Archive at
SOAS University of London, and Dr Martin Orwin, Senior Lecturer in
Somali and Amharic, SOAS University of London. Languages included
in the book: Assyrian; Belarusian; Chimiini; Irish Gaelic; Maori;
Navajo; Patua; Rotuman; Saami; Scottish Gaelic; Welsh; Yiddish;
Zoque. Poets included in the book: Joy Harjo; Hawad; Jackie Kay;
Aurelia Lassaque; Nineb Lamassu; Gearoid Mac Lochlainn; Valzhyna
Mort; Laura Tohe; Taniel Varoujan; Avrom Sutzkever.
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