“In the middle of the night I woke/ To no more voices no more laughter/ Only sky lanterns…” Weekend poem, by Manuel Bandeira. Translated from Portuguese by the 2015 City University Literary Translation Summer School.
“Ten of us had sat down to translate this poem by Manuel Bandeira, and here we were, stumped by the very first word, the title…” Tom Gatehouse on translating Manuel Bandeira’s ‘Profundamente’ into English.