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A New Divan

“Eleven Maxims from the Book of Ill-Humour” read by Don Paterson

26th February 2020

Eleven Maxims from the Book of Ill-Humour, Don Paterson

This poem is an original poem written for “A New Divan” by Don Paterson, inspired by the book of Ill-Humour in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “West-Eastern Divan” (published 1819).

In 1819, the great German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published his West-Eastern Divan, a celebration through poetry of friendship between ‘East’ and ‘West’. 200 years later, the world has radically moved on, but the need for a renewed initiative for dialogue and friendship between cultures has never been greater. With this in mind, Gingko has published a new, annotated translation of the original West-Eastern Divan, but also A New Divan - a new, multilingual poetry anthology for our times.

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