Tag Archives: Oscar Duffield
Verbal Mycology: Olya Stoyanova’s “Happiness Street,” Translated from Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova
In Bulgarian poet Olya Stoyanova’s award winning 2013 poetry collection “Happiness Street,” translated by Katerina Stoykova and published in 2025, empathy is not merely a byproduct of the reading experience; rather, it is something that permeates and motivates each of her poems.
Skinless Light and Time That Breathes: Oscar Duffield on Translating the Poetry of Gabrielle Althen
The work of French poet Gabrielle Althen (pseudonym of Colette Astier) is a simmering broth of intensity, strangeness and wild overgrowth verging on surrealism. These qualities are paradoxically nurtured rather than inhibited by her preference for miniscule, aphoristic snippets of text ‘sculpted’ (her phrase) out of the blank space that envelops them.