Annie Rutherford

So glad you're enjoying, Sam!

My email account finally learnt not to send these to junk today 🤦‍♀️ no taste! Every day so far has been a jewel, so glad I signed up

V proud to have had poems included in Annie’s brilliant poetry advent calendar each year. It can be a difficult time but what better company through it than a poem sent to you every day? And knowing that is helping others in terrible need? That’s the spirit of the season. Not too late to sign up!

My other beautiful advent calendar, @annierutherford.bsky.social’s poetry calendar benefitting @msf.ca, today features Polly Atkin locating hope & endurance in the form of a grey wagtail’s winter lessons. I needed that. @pollyrowena.bsky.social

What a lovely treat to find this, Paul! Thank you so much for doing it. Along with @annierutherford.bsky.social 's advent calendar for @msf.ca that's the season sorted 🙏 😊 🙏

The best Advent Calendar is back!

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This is a lovely thing.

This was a lovely part of my December last year and I'm glad to see it return. Perhaps your inbox could use some poetry, too?

When I first came up with this idea back in 2023, I told myself that if the Poetry Advent Calendar could raise £500 for MSF, I'd be more than chuffed - this year, we've surpassed that in the first 90 minutes of the advent calendar going live! Huge thanks to everyone who's donated and shared so far ❤️

Time ONCE MORE for the best advent calendar of them all! Donate! Get a poem every day throughout this miserable month!

Signed! Thank you for putting the effort into organising this again, Annie. It was fabulous last year, and most importantly it's for @msf.ca Poetry friends, Annie brings you the gift of poetry, please sign up👇

Perhaps, like me, you already have an extraordinarily indulgent & fancy chocolate advent calendar sent by your extravagantly delightful sibling 😇

But I recommend also signing up for Annie’s poetry advent calendar to benefit MSF & their indispensable relief work. Last year’s was an utter joy.

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It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...

Queer Gothic Words - Lavender Menace A monthly book club at Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive focusing on gothic books by LGBTQ+ authors, or featuring queer characters/themes.

Edinburgh's Lavendar Menace Archives run a Queer Gothic book club, might be worth getting in touch with them? lavendermenace.org.uk/event/queer-...

And @kaitewelsh.bsky.social will also have interesting thoughts on this!...

In advance of this -- if any of my fellow translators have some favourite reviews, which you think deal with translation particularly well, I'd love to see them!

✨ A week to go ✨ Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨

Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social

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Oh no, what a shame.

I agree, I'd tend to translate Mensch as human/person -- unless the masculine is clearly intentional rather than just implied in the original. I like your version!

We need this in Scotland. It’s not even wishful or fanciful thinking: it’s financially astute. Our creative industries are absolutely vital

I'm really looking forward to this, do come along!

What a fantastic event! @bcltuea.bsky.social @annierutherford.bsky.social @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social

Sent a digital publisher's catalogue. In it, a special anniversary edition of a beloved book. They *boast* it's a new translation. Nowhere in the copy do they mention who translated. I zoom in on jacket. Nothing. I look down at writer bio, only the original author. VALUE TRANSLATORS, PEOPLE.

Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨

Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social

Aw, thank you!

Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨

Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social

Interesting conversation between @annierutherford.bsky.social and Paul Russell Garrett discussing how their #translation and translation-adjacent income breaks down, by activity, genre, etc.
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My brilliant friend!

Loved this performance at the Loud Poets Showcase last month!