Burl Horniachek
burlhorniachek.bsky.social
Burl Horniachek
@burlhorniachek.bsky.social
Huntress” by Timothy Murphy. From Hunter’s Log (North Dakota State UP, 2011).
April 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“How I Like It” by Mario dell'Arco, translated by @marcadimartino.bsky.social. From Dell’Arco: Days Last Forever: Selected Poems (@worldpoetrybook, 2025).
April 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“Santa Cruz III” by Derek Walcott. From Morning, Paramin (FSG, 2016), with painter Peter Doig.
April 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“Breakwater in Cobourg” by Canadian poet Richard Greene. From Dante’s House (Vehicule, 2013).
April 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“Successive Yellows” by Richard Wakefield. From A Vertical Mile (Able Muse, 2012).
April 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“The Sleeper in the Valley” by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Canadian poet Marc Di Saverio. From Di Saverio: Sanatorium Songs (Palimpsest, 2013).
February 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Merry Christmas!
December 26, 2024 at 12:18 AM
“Songs on the Birth of Our Lord” by Franciszek Karpiński, translated by Watson Kirkconnell
December 25, 2024 at 5:11 PM
“A Room for Still Life” by John Finlay. From Collected Poems (⁦‪@WisebloodBooks‬⁩, 2023).
December 13, 2024 at 5:21 AM
Palma on Dante
Michael Palma on why Dante’s Divine Comedy is more relevant than ever: “It is no wonder that the Internet abounds in reviews from readers who started the Divine Comedy expecting to be bored or confused but who instead have found themselves riveted.”
A Riveting, Timeless Journey Through the Afterlife: Inside the World of Dante’s Divine Comedy
Go to the poetry section of any reasonably well-­stocked bookstore, and you will find Dante’s Divine Comedy represented in a number of translations of widely varying vintages and styles. Over the l…
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December 2, 2024 at 8:41 PM
“Elementary Alchemy” by Canadian poet Daryl Hine. From Recollected Poems (Fitzhenry&Whiteside, 2007).
December 2, 2024 at 7:41 PM
For Dante fans, this will be out this week. The whole thing in terza rima.
December 1, 2024 at 10:14 PM
The translation of the Five Great Odes of Paul Claudel by Jonathan Geltner (Ignatius, 2020) is a banger.
December 1, 2024 at 10:11 PM
“An Incoming Call” by Canadian poet P.W. Bridgman (@pwbwriter1.blusky.social). From A Lamb (Ekstasis, 2018).
November 29, 2024 at 3:56 PM
“New Canaan” by Ricardo Sternberg. From One River: New and Selected Poems (Vehicule, 2024).
November 28, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Looking forward to reading.
The best part of bringing a new book into the world is certainly the part where you start collecting blurbs.

Heavyweight verse novel reigning champ and gentleman of letters @jasonguriel.bsky.social is first with kind words for an untested welterweight.
November 27, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Fiction al poetry priorities.
November 25, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Canto 1 of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, translated by Seamus Heaney
November 24, 2024 at 9:07 PM
A fine one.
Paavo Haavikko, tr. Anselm Hollo
November 24, 2024 at 4:09 PM
A fine one.
I spent the evening sipping at the poems of Mario dell’Arco, translated from Romanesco by @marcadimartino.bsky.social. The book, which I had the honor of blurbing, arrived a few days ago from @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social. Addictive. worldpoetrybooks.com/books/day-la...
November 24, 2024 at 6:46 AM
Canto 1 of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, translated by Canadian poet Marc Di Saverio
November 24, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Looking forward to reading.
November 23, 2024 at 6:18 PM
A fine one.
November 22, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Childers book is a great one.
November 21, 2024 at 8:27 PM