Poem in translation

I'm really pleased to be included in the Anthology of Australian Poetry due for publication by Patralekha in January 2007. My poem a feather will fall to the moon as fast as a hammer has been translated into Bangla (Bengali) by Dr Tathagata Dasgupta (Shoumyo). Australia will be the featured country at the 2007 Kolkata International Book Fair, thus the Anthology.

This poem was runner-up in the Arts Qld Val Vallis Unpublished Poetry Award at the Queensland Poetry Festival this year. What is most interesting for me is the fact that it will be published first in another language (a beautiful visual language). The poem won't be published in English until March 2007. Sometimes poems make their own journey, this one has and almost by happenstance. Makes my pile of crap poems and the rejects less deflating for a bit.