In their 90th issue, Montreal based matrix magazine has published 4 poems by Nuno Júdice and Ana Paula Tavares. These English translations are by paulo da costa.

PREFACE The poems in Júdice’s universe reflect a conversational and unpretentious philosophical discourse whether distilling musings of the heart in a café scene (The Zodiac According To Saussure) or anchored to the tactile world of the domestic tasks as in Rain, Strings, Poems Like Laundry On A Line which ponders the ars poetica in its theoretical dimension. Many of the poems in this anthology walk a line that connects the ruminations and intellectual essence of the essay form to the tangible emotion of the poem while appearing simultaneously to inhabit parallel universes. Although translated into twelve languages, from Hebrew to Arabic, including Farsi and Bulgarian, Judice’s poetry remains vastly underrepresented…

Edited by Yukari Meldrum, this year’s anthology (2012) has selected two translations of Marilyn Bowering to the Portuguese by paulo da costa. TransLit Volume 9 is an anthology of literary translations published by the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Alberta (Canada). This volume showcases translations of various literary texts in the following language combinations: French-English, Hebrew-English, Japanese-English, Spanish-English, English-French, English-German, English-Portuguese, and English-Spanish. The translators: Neil B. Bishop, paulo da costa, Hugh Hazelton, Burl Horniachek, Jonathan Kaplansky, Sauline Letendre, Christelle Morelli, Sylvie Nicolas, Maureen Ranson, Cecilia Sessarego, Leonhard Unglaub & Logan Kennedy, Yukari Meldrum, Gilles Mossiere. The authors: Anne Hébert, Marilyn Bowering, Yannick Renauld, Hélèn Rioux, Alejandro Saravia, Johanne…

Este número da série diVersos – Poesia e Tradução dá destaque a um pequeno dossiê bilingue de novos poetas do Canadá, com seleção e tradução do poeta português fixado naquele país, paulo da costa. Na seleção de paulo da costa, destaque-se uma dimensão multicultural, com três poetisas e três poetas, dos quais um de origem singalesa, outro de origem indiana, uma poetisa da Terra Nova, duas poetisas com vários poemas curiosamente situados em contexto português. Em poucas páginas, oferece-se ao leitor um panorama diversificado e estimulante pela variedade de linguagens estéticas num leque de revigorante frescor e inovação.

The Australian literary magazine Southpaw, in its inaugural issue, has published paulo da costa’s story set in Angola and entitled The Red Skirt. The story is part of a recently finished manuscript of fiction entitled The Green and Purple Skin of the World.  

Disponível nas diversas lojas virtuais da www.amazon.com por todo o mundo, incluindo em Espanha, Inglaterra e EUA, o novo CD de poesia do paulo da costa pode ser descarregado nas suas lojas de música mp3. O cibernauta tem a opção de compra do CD por faixa ou no seu todo.  

O poema longo, ser português, acabou de ser publicado pelos cadernos de estudos de literatura Gávea-Brown da Universidade de Brown nos Estados Unidos. Gavea-Brown – A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters and Studies 2010-2011 Gavea-Brown Publications was founded in 1980 under the auspices of the Center for Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University, its purpose being to make Portuguese literature and culture better known in the English-speaking world. With such a broad as well as ambitious objective, its plan was to publish titles in such rather diverse areas as translations of Portuguese literature, works relating to Portuguese Studies, and original creative works, in English or in Portuguese, which in some…