Fernando Pessoa’s other nation
1 June 2010 by Richard Zenith “My nation is the Portuguese language,” Fernando Pessoa famously wrote in The Book of Disquiet, to …
Translating Camões
1 January 2007 by Richard Zenith Luís Vaz de Camões (1524?-1580) wrote poetry in many different forms (he also wrote three plays), …
Pessoa’s Heteronyms
1 July 2006 by Richard Zenith
The ‘Real’ Fernando Pessoa: a biographical sketch
1 July 2006 by Richard Zenith
Welcome to Portuguese poetry - April 2006
1 April 2006 by Richard Zenith I remember how in the late 1980s, when I moved to Portugal, if I was shopping for a shirt, the …
Welcome to Portuguese poetry - January 2006
1 January 2006 by Richard Zenith “There’s no accounting for taste,” people sometimes say to “explain” the inexplicable phenomenon …
Welcome to Portuguese poetry - October 2005
1 October 2005 by Richard Zenith Ruy Belo (1933-1978) and Luiza Neto Jorge (1939-1989), two of the leading figures of the 1961 …
Welcome to Portuguese poetry - July 2005
1 July 2005 by Richard Zenith Did a true Surrealist Movement exist in Portugal? Even those who are reputed to be its leaders …
Welcome to Portuguese poetry - April 2005
1 April 2005 by Richard Zenith It would be hard to imagine two poetic personalities as different from each other as Vasco Graça …
Eugénio de Andrade: A Translator’s View
3 February 2005 by Alexis Levitin Music is the central concern of Andrade’s poetry, discovered his translator Alexis Levitin after …
Who’s behind the Portuguese magazine?
15 January 2005 About our Sponsor About the Editor and Translators
Welcome to Portuguese poetry - January 2005
1 January 2005 by Richard Zenith The two poets we are presenting to kick off the new year at Poetry International – Carlos de …
A word of welcome to first-time visitors
1 October 2004 by Richard Zenith “Portugal is a land of poets.” This statement is so often made by the Portuguese in books, …
Welcome to Portuguese poetry - October 2004
1 October 2004 by Richard Zenith For the Fall quarter we are presenting two poets from Oporto, the ‘other’ major hub of Portuguese …
An Unsung Literature
9 July 2004 by Richard Zenith July 1, 2004 This comprehensive essay discusses the origins, themes and poetic devices of …
Welcome to Portuguese poetry - July 2004
1 July 2004 by Richard Zenith This month, one of our ‘new’ features goes back eight or nine centuries! We are presenting about …
Nuno Júdice’s Meditations on Life’s Ruins
30 June 2004 by Richard Zenith Poetry as observation and reflection, without higher purposes, a species of “psychological and …
Gravitas Poetica in the Work of Paulo Teixeira
30 June 2004 by Richard Zenith Paulo Teixeira’s poetry is unique in the Portuguese panorama for being intensely concerned with …
Welcome to Portuguese poetry - April 2004
1 April 2004 "Portugal is a land of poets." This statement is so often made by the Portuguese in …
In the Name of Things
31 March 2004 by Richard Zenith A personal view on Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, by her translator Richard Zenith. “Poetry,” …
Critics on the work of Manuel Gusmao
1 January 2004 by Fernando Pinto do Amaral Manuel Gusmão’s second book of poetry proves what we already knew: that his is one of the great …
Critics on the work of Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão
1 January 2004 On first reading Fiama, one is confronted by poetry that defies interpretation and, therefore, …
Critics on the work of António Franco Alexandre
1 January 2004 by Óscar Lopes "I stumbled across an old book by publishers Assírio e Alvim. It is a book by a poet named …
 

 
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