Colcester, Florence, Belfast and elsewhere all intermingle in Philip Terry’s version of Dante’s Purgatorio
When I first published a version of Dante’s Inferno in 2014 set at the University of Essex, more than one reviewer pointed out the connection to. As with Ulysses, I wasn’t so much translating Dante as reinventing his work for purposes of my own and for new readers.
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When the poets start to scale the Essex Alp which stretches up to the sky as far as they can see, the comparisons that spring to mind are Irish peaks: “Maum Turk Mountains you can scale, edge up | Mount Gable, climb to Dunluce Castle, ascend Errigal. | Feet will do there, but here you must scramble on hands || And knees.”
That’s how I ended up writing a Dante for Ireland – and despite the poem’s engagement with some of the darkest moments of the Troubles, it ends on an optimistic note, where in a vision the Liffey and the Lagan are seen to flow together as if joining hands.
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