Alice Whitmore
@alicerosewhitmore.bsky.social
writer 〰️ translator 〰️ PhD
♡ living on Peek Whurrung country ♡
♡ living on Peek Whurrung country ♡
“I imagine myself translating, sorting through the bones of my poet’s words — collecting, recollecting, re-recollecting — and forming them into a figure that might, if only briefly, rise from its grave and walk again.”
My offering from the latest issue of Cordite:
cordite.org.au/essays/ghost...
My offering from the latest issue of Cordite:
cordite.org.au/essays/ghost...
Ghost Writing: Translation, Death and Renewal
On 22 June, 2022, I lost my poet. He wasn’t really mine, and I didn’t really lose him, but we belonged to one other in that particular way that translators and poets do, and his death extinguished …
cordite.org.au
May 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
“I imagine myself translating, sorting through the bones of my poet’s words — collecting, recollecting, re-recollecting — and forming them into a figure that might, if only briefly, rise from its grave and walk again.”
My offering from the latest issue of Cordite:
cordite.org.au/essays/ghost...
My offering from the latest issue of Cordite:
cordite.org.au/essays/ghost...
Very, very excited to be taking part in the Melbourne Writers Festival’s inaugural Translation Slam next month! Join us for a “thrilling literary joust” 🤺 featuring a never-before-translated work by the queen of Latin American neogothic horror: ❤️🔥Mariana Enríquez❤️🔥
mwf.com.au/program/foun...
mwf.com.au/program/foun...
April 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Very, very excited to be taking part in the Melbourne Writers Festival’s inaugural Translation Slam next month! Join us for a “thrilling literary joust” 🤺 featuring a never-before-translated work by the queen of Latin American neogothic horror: ❤️🔥Mariana Enríquez❤️🔥
mwf.com.au/program/foun...
mwf.com.au/program/foun...