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DE-ENG Literary Translator, language enthusiast, bookworm and general words-whizz

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Limerick #3

There once was a man from Kilkenny who swallowed a very big penny Oh, the coin, it was large and as wide as a barge it was a pity he couldn’t spend any.

16th Apr 202212th Mar 2022

Doorways and Gateways #2

What came first: the gate or the door? To stand and to wait at a door or a gate is the perfect expression of humanity’s progression: closing and enclosing things fencing things and rowing things or even to take offence at what is without or within this gate or that door.

13th Apr 202212th Mar 2022

Doorways and Gateways

A silent ceiling of green, the canopy curves over the head of the hunched figure hurrying below. Feet rustle over leaves with careful tread as darkness gathers at the edges and creeps inwards. He licks his lips, a nervous twitching at the corner of his eye as he turns his head from side to side…

9th Apr 202212th Mar 2022

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   annaputsover on Translating from the Visual 1: Van Gogh’s Wheatfield With Crows24th Mar 2021

   Thank you! 😁

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   Judith on Translating from the Visual 1: Van Gogh’s Wheatfield With Crows24th Mar 2021

   Beautiful! I love the sensory details you’ve included.

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   Rosepoint Publishing on Kitty Marion: The Most Badass Suffragette You’ve Never Heard Of19th Feb 2021

   Loved that post–great review!

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   Oh, Frozen Peas! – Fae Corps Inc on Oh, Frozen Peas!10th Feb 2021

   […] Oh, Frozen Peas! […]

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   annaputsover on Book ‘Warning’: Als Wir Träumten23rd Dec 2020

   He’s part of a younger generation of GDR authors. He was born in 1977, so he remembers the GDR but…