Reading ‘Antarah in the 21st Century
“I have tried to translate this at least 10 times before this particular version. I did one of these in the style of Beowulf, I did one of these in a sort of minimalist Ted Hughes…”
Richard Sieburth
ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād’s ‘War Songs’: ‘Tenderness Beneath the Violence’
” The push to translate his verse came when a production company phoned Philip Kennedy, the general editor of LAL, about an `Antarah movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.”