"Wavelengths" is a companion volume to Michael Longley's previous Enitharmon chapbooks, "Cenotaph of Snow" (2003) and "The Rope-Makers" (2005), letterpress-printed at The Stonehouse Fine Press. It contains a selection of the translations which Longley describes as 'fundamental to my imaginative development - versions mainly from Latin and Greek - which reflect my preoccupations and feel to me like my own poems.' "Wavelengths" includes translations from 1962 of two Greek lyrics, versions after the love elegies of Sextus Propertius, and versions from Longley's near contemporaries - the Romanian poet Marin Sorescu, the Dutch poets Hendrik Marsman and Ida Gerhardt and as an unexpected and charming bonus, a poem originally written in French by the Welsh painter Gwen John.
- ISBN10 1904634575
- ISBN13 9781904634577
- Publish Date 30 April 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 April 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Enitharmon Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 33
- Language English