Michael Lee Rattigan : part one

Michael Lee Rattigan (Caterham, UK) is a poet and translator who has lived and taught in Mexico and Spain. He translated the first complete collection of Fernando Pessoa's Alberto Caeiro poems (Rufus Books, 2007) and contributed to the Selected Writings of César Vallejo (Wesleyan Press, 2015). He is the author of two poetry collections, Liminal (Rufus Books, 2012) and Hiraeth (Black Herald Press, 2016).

What are you working on?

I’ve just fallen off the cliff-edge of a collection that encompasses poems written over the last eight years or so, straddling a shorter collection of mine, Hiraeth, published by The Black Herald Press in 2016. It’s called Metanoia and is an attempt to mine end-of-life experiences, inflected and deflected by the likes of Vallejo, Paz and Kierkegaard among others.