Michael Jarvie

So I’ve beaten last year’s total with a few weeks to spare.
A working-class translator is something to be.
#booksky #poetry #translation
#trakl

Even better. Thank you poetry readers

Not a bad November as it turns out.
9 sales and 539 page reads for Autumnal Elegies.
#poetry #translation #trakl #booksky

Total earnings from proofreading and editing in 2025 = £40.
AI wins again. Jarvie loses.
#proofreading #editing

linktr.ee/michaelkjarvie This is an ideal free resource for writers.
As a poor working-class writer I can’t afford a website.
I’m also not permitted to earn any money from proofreading and editing.
My only source of income is book sales on Amazon since bookshops refuse to stock my work.

Only 3 more sales required to equal 2024.
A working-class translator is something to be.
#booksky #poetry #translation #trakl

So, I’ve reached this point now. Writing the dreaded synopsis!
#booksky #writing #publishing

I do my best to fuck them up.
De Profundis is one of the most interesting of the earlier free verse poems from Trakl’s first collection Gedichte of 1913.

More sales. Every one of them pisses off the middle-class gatekeepers who reject my work.
Keep ‘em coming.
#booksky #poetry

Always nice to see.
A working-class writer is something to be.
#poetry #trakl #translation #booksky

The month so far.
Someone has been busy reading Autumnal Elegies.
#booksky #reading #poetry #translation

That was 2017.
I’m still banned by Waterstones.
Plus ca change.
#writing #booksky #workingclass

Today’s poem for Remembrance Day is by Georg Trakl.
German military losses in World War One amounted to 2 million dead.
#poetry #war #germany #translation #trakl

Very wise. I’ve had covid and it was minor. Hence my decision. I’ve found that not working anymore I no longer get sore throats or hacking coughs. I’m much healthier not being exposed to all those office bugs.

Do you have a specific reason for the jab? I had the first two but none since then. I had a minimal reaction for the first two so that’s been my experience.

www.culturematters.org.uk/kate-clanchy... my review.

I can now confirm that my essay about the Black Country entitled “From Dusseldorf to Dudley (via Darlington)” is scheduled for publication in May/June 2026 by Zero Books.
The title of the volume containing my essay is “Transformer: Writing the Black Country”.
#booksky #writing

I will get round to the latter eventually.

Given the alliteration in the original poem I was seeking a similar effect in my translation.

Interesting point. My Otto Muller Verlag two-volume edition mentions that variant reading together with “sammet” instead of “sammelt”. The sense of mortal or fatal would still be present. I chose “deadly” to continue the musicality of the d sounds in words such as woods, resound, golden and darkly.

Macbeth is my favourite Shakespeare play, largely because of its linguistic density.
I did once memorise all of act one just for the hell of it.
One of my stories is called “Signifying Nothing” and one of my lecturers wrote a book called “Night’s Black Agents”.

Yeah I know I’m great🤣 hope you are well. Not seen you in a while. Maybe at Ann’s next open mic?

Oh right.

Nope. I’ll have a look.

Today’s Trakl poem. His last.
My translation naturally.
#poetry #booksky #translation

Shortlisted this time.

I’m a big fan of your work. As the year wraps up, readers are looking for new books to dive into. I’m running an End of Year Book Shout Out to help authors get more visibility.
I have a community of over 10,000 active readers who love discovering new stories.
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Spam filter works fine

I didn’t realise there was a book. I’ll have to add that to my comp list. Thanks.
My novel features Ernst Gennat, the Buddha of the Alexanderplatz.

Ten perfect years of submitting my work for no reward.
I really must keep it up.

I’ll have to watch this series as one of the characters in my forthcoming novel The Sharp Judge features in it.