錫洗盤 The Tin Wash Dish

This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is “Poetry and Conflict”. 21 international poets from 18 different places are invited to participate in recitations, symposia and sharing sessions of the Poetry Nights. A recitation focusing on 10 local Hong Kong poets, “Hong Kong Cantonese Poetry Night” is included. This collection seeks to make accessible the best of contemporary international poetry with outstanding translations.

萊斯‧馬雷，著名澳洲詩人，1965年開始發表詩歌，至今出版超過16本詩集。他居住在新南威爾士州本雅鄉的農場，即是他出生的地方。馬雷的詩曾被翻譯成德文、荷蘭文、丹麥文、挪威文、瑞典文、法文、意大利文、斯洛文尼亞文、馬其頓文和西班牙文等，在世界各地出版，並贏得許多國際詩歌獎，包括「格蕾絲利文詩歌獎」、「皮特拉克詩歌獎」、「英國皇后詩歌金章」、「T.S.艾略特詩歌獎」、「意大利蒙德約國際詩歌獎」等。

Les Murray, born October 1938, is a prominent Australian poet who has published 16 poetry collections since 1965. Some of his collections have been published in translation, notably in German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Italian, Slovenian, Macedonian and Spanish. Prominent prizes in English that have come his way home have included the Petrarch Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and the Mondello Prize in Italy.

Kiss of the Whip 6

吻鞭

 

The Gum Forest 12

桉樹林

 

The Bulldozer 18

推土機

 

Poetry and Religion 20

詩與宗教

 

The Tin Wash Dish 24

錫洗盤

 

Shellback Tick 28

龜殼蜱

 

Dead Trees in the Dam 30

水塘上的枯樹

 

It Allows a Portrait in Line Scan at Fifteen 34

十五歲詩畫像

 

Deaf Language 44

聾語

 

A Postcard 46

一張明信片

 

The Images Alone 48

意象罷了

 

The Moon Man 50

月人

 

The Great Cuisine Cleaver Dance Sonnet 52

切工廚師之舞十四行詩

 

The Poisons of Right and Left 54

左右之毒

 

Death from Exposure 56

曝光致死

 

The Farm Terraces 58

梯田

一張明信片

 

一條鏡子般的瀝青路穿過

廣袤的平原。天在下著毛毛雨。

一輛單車泊在一本大書旁邊

書在路邊，被反過來，像帳篷。

有人冒出來説，我從這本書裏

讀到這種荒謬的事：「每一隻鳥

都有石頭做的假牙，乘著棺具

進入這個世界。」就在這裏面。

 

A Postcard

A mirrory tar-top road across

A wide plain. Drizzlings sky.

A bike is parked at a large book

turned down tent-fashion on the verge.

One emerging says I read such crazy

things in this book. ‘Every bird

has stone false teeth and enters

the world in its coffin.’ That’s in there.