On this site you can access collections of original poems and translations by Peter Hainsworth. Each collection is an individual creation, with different themes and forms. Click on the links above to enter the collections themselves.

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Sonnets in Brackets consists of 56 14-line poems that look like traditional sonnets and are often shaped in the same way. But rhyming is mostly intermittent or non-existent, and the tone is modern, even throwaway. The poems in Saints and Days are written for feast-days of selected Christian saints, mostly lesser known ones, and take a ruefully sympathetic and questioning look at his or her miracles, sacrifices and relics. Some poems are in regular forms, but most aren’t. No formal belief is asked of the reader. Emergency Stairs contains mostly rhyming poems with a strong rhythmic beat, covering matters of love, sex, death and other cosmic questions, sometimes more or less nonsensically.

 

Peter has already published translations of poems by Andrea Zanzotto (Modern Poetry in Translation, 2006) and Petrarch (The Essential Petrarch, Hackett Publishing, 2012), as well as stories by Boccaccio (Tales from the Decameron, Penguin, 2015). To these he now adds versions of  the Italian dialect poet, Biagio Marin, which are accessible here.

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Peter's novel, French Promenade, written under the name Richard Jack, is available from Amazon.

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Peter can be contacted at prjhains@google.com.

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