Fire, Blood and the Alphabet One hundred years of Lorca [Paperback]

This volume celebrates the life and work of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist. The contributors are a stimulating blend of academics, poets and theatre professionals, all responding in a variety of ways to the creative challenges of Lorca's legacy. Alan Lyddiard and other directors discuss staging Lorca's plays. The celebrated artist and stage designer Frederic Amat talks about his filming of Lorca's surrealist screenplay 'Voyage to the Moon'. Professor Paul Julian Smith of University of Cambridge and other academic specialists discuss the continuing vitality of Lorca's poetry, theatre and paintings. Experienced translators talk about the problems and opportunities in translating Lorca's poems and plays, and take up the creative challenge of producing adaptations of a single sonnet, 'Wounds of Love'. There is also a translation of an ode to Lorca by Pablo Neruda and contributions by leading poets Brendan Kennelly, Merryn Williams and John Clifford.

Acknowledegments List of illustrations Federico Garcia Lorca: list of works mentioned in this volume Introduction - Michael Thompson The Lorca Fiesta: celebrating the centenary in Newcastle - Sebastian Doggart Part 1: Reassessing the impact of Lorca's work Lorca's legacy: writing in the institution - Paul Julian Smith Lorca 1919-1929 - Gwynne Edwards Garcia Lorca: after New York - David Johnston 'Poetry that gets up off the page and becomes human': poetic coherence and eccentricity in Lorca's theatre - Michael Thompson Lluis Pasqual's unknown Lorcas - Maria Delgado Lorca, Don Cristobal and the Carnivalesque - Cariad Astles Learning from the Master: Lorca's homage to Picasso - Jacqueline Cockburn Part 2: Creative responses The Death of Lorca - Merryn Williams The night journey - John Clifford Ode to Federico Gacia Lorca by Pablo Neruda, translated by Sebastian Doggart Notes on Voyage to the Moon - Frederic Amat Irish ReLorcations - Colin Teevan Looking for Lorca: a legacy in the Ameril��