In this week's podcast, we turn our eyes – and ears – to the literature of minority languages. Claire Armitstead speaks to Clive Boutle, of publisher Francis Boutle, about his Lesser Used Languages of Europe series, and discusses the pleasures and problems of bringing out anthologies of Galician, Breton, Norman, Manx and Cornish writing. She also talks to Paul Gubbins, co-editor of the Esperanto magazine Monato, about the benefits of a truly international language.
Finally, as the inaugural bilingual Dinefwr Literature Festival opens, Sarah Crown asks National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke about the challenges of representing a country with a substantial literary tradition in two different languages.
Reading list
The Turn of the Ermine edited by Jacqueline Gibson and Gwyn Griffiths (Francis Boutle)
Manannan's Cloak edited by Robert Corteen Carswell (Francis Boutle)
Breogán's Lighthouse edited by Antonio Raúl de Toro Santos (Francis Boutle)
The Toad and the Donkey edited by Geraint Jennings and Yan Marquis (Francis Boutle)
Star in a Night Sky edited by Paul Gubbins (Francis Boutle)
Monato magazine
A Recipe for Water by Gillian Clarke (Carcanet)
The Mabinogion translated by Sioned Davies (OUP)
Dafydd ap Gwilym translated by Gwyn Thomas (University of Wales Press)
Peace Makers by Waldo Williams, translated by Tony Conran (Gomer Press)
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