Category Archives: Poetry Comics

Sous mon lit de métal by Cato Fortin

Posted on May 10, 2016 by julian peters comics

Here is my adaptation of an extract from a poem by the Montreal poet Cato Fortin. The adaptation was created as an initiative of the Université de Montréal undergraduate literary journal Le Pied http://lepied.littfra.com/ for a series of “Poster Poems” … Continue reading →

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Interview for The Oakland Arts Review

Posted on April 22, 2016 by julian peters comics

The Oakland Arts Review is a new international undergraduate literary journal published out of Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Their inaugural issue, which came out this March, featured a number of my poetry comics, and also included an interview … Continue reading →

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“Annabel Lee” comic in Mamut

Posted on April 4, 2016 by julian peters comics

My adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annable Lee,” appears in the latest issue of Mamut, a semi-annual Spanish-language magazine based out of Barcelona and dedicated to sci-fi, fantasy and horror culture. It’s a thrill for me to be included in … Continue reading →

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“Graphic and Digital Keats: ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ in Poetry Comics” – An Article by Brian Bates

Posted on March 9, 2016 by julian peters comics

Brian Bates, a Romanticism scholar teaching at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California, has published an article on the subject of three graphic adaptations of John Keats’s 1819 poem, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci.” Along with my … Continue reading →

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“Le mani” by Vittorio Sereni in “Atelier”

Posted on February 26, 2016 by julian peters comics

My adaptation of the poem “Le mani” (“The Hands”) by the Italian poet Vittorio Sereni (1913-1983) appears today in “Atelier”, Italy’s leading online poetry magazine. View the full 1-page comic on their website here: http://www.atelierpoesia.it/portal/it/poesia-arte-it-mul/comics-by-j-peters-mul/item/358-le-mani-di-vittorio-sereni

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“Dora Markus” by Eugenio Montale (English translation)

Posted on February 1, 2016 by julian peters comics

A couple of months ago, I created a comics adaptation of an extract from the poem “Dora Markus” by Eugenio Montale (1896-1981). The comic was commissioned by Atelier, Italy’s leading online poetry magazine. I subsequently asked my old collaborators Dr. … Continue reading →

Posted in comics, marco sonzogni, new zealand centre for literary translation, Poetry, Poetry Comics, Poetry translation, ross woods, victoria university wellington | Tagged atelier, dora markus, eugenio montale, legs, marco sonzogni, ross woods | 5 Comments

Prufrock in The Hindu Business Line

Posted on January 2, 2016 by julian peters comics

Happy New Year to all! Eight pages from my comics adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” comic were featured in yesterday’s issue of BLink, the arts and culture supplement to The Hindu Business Line, … Continue reading →

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Ungaretti’s Dead Comrade Identified? – An Article by Mario Colombo

Posted on December 23, 2015 by julian peters comics

One hundred years ago today, on the 23rd of December, 1915, Giuseppe Ungaretti wrote what would become one of the most famous Italian poems of the First World War, the very short but infinitely moving “Veglia” (“Vigil”). The 27-year-old poet … Continue reading →

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“Dora Markus” by Eugenio Montale in “Atelier” Magazine

Posted on November 12, 2015 by julian peters comics

My adaptation of a passage from the poem “Dora Markus” by the great Italian poet Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) appears today in “Atelier”, Italy’s leading online poetry magazine. View the full 1-page comic on their website here: http://www.atelierpoesia.it/portal/poesia-arte/comics-by-j-peters/dora-markus-di-eugenio-montale/313 Curiously, Montale originally … Continue reading →

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“In Flanders Field” by John McCrae (1915)

Posted on November 11, 2015 by julian peters comics

In honour of Remembrance Day, I am reposting my adaptation into comics of “In Flanders Fields) the famous WWI poem by John McCrae. The poem was originally created as part of my residency at the Victoria University of Wellington in … Continue reading →

Posted in comics, new zealand centre for literary translation, Poetry, Poetry Comics, victoria university wellington, World War One | Tagged all right there soldier?, in flanders fields, john mccrae, remembrance day, vincent o'sullivan | 4 Comments