詩歌朗讀: 如歌——致107歲mumu遠行｜Poetry Reading: Like a Song — For Mumu, Departed at 107 скачать в хорошем качестве

詩歌朗讀: 如歌——致107歲mumu遠行｜Poetry Reading: Like a Song — For Mumu, Departed at 107

This is the official reading of 《如歌——致107歲mumu遠行》 [Like a Song — For Mumu, Departed at 107], the 2025 selection for the Taiwan–Ireland Poetry Translation Competition. This year’s featured poet is Dong Shu-Ming (董恕明), a writer of Puyuma and Han heritage, based in Taitung, Taiwan. In this moving elegy, Dong pays tribute to a 107-year-old elder—affectionately called mumu—whose life story weaves together community memory, multilingual song, Indigenous knowledge, and everyday resilience. Through richly textured imagery, multilingual cadences, and intergenerational echoes, the poem traces mumu’s life as a woman of the Pinaski community, spanning languages from Puyuma to Japanese to Mandarin and beyond. The poem invites translators to listen closely to its voices, rhythms, and historical resonances—and to explore how such a deeply local poem might travel across language into a new cultural space. Now in its fifth year, the Taiwan–Ireland Poetry Translation Competition is open to translators around the world. Entrants are invited to translate this year’s chosen poem into English for an Irish readership, and to reflect creatively and critically on the journey from source to target language. Whether you are a student, a professional translator, or simply passionate about poetry, we welcome your voice. Enter this year's competition here: https://forms.gle/taQbQeUQanBJxnsB7