You may have seen some of the short videos I’ve made to promote my epic in blank verse, Of Letters and a Man. I’m now doing the same for my translation of Fernando Pessoa’s Message. The latest installment in the Message series is “Ulysses,” legendary founder of Lisbon and the first “castle” of the Portuguese coat of arms which inspired the first part of Pessoa’s poem:
The two previous uploads were “The Castles” and “The Shields”—poetic meditations on the two components of the aforementioned coat of arms:
For these shorts, I’m doing the narration myself, but the audiobook version, available from Audible, is narrated by Guy Bethell:
Stay tuned for the second “castle”: “Viriatus,” the Lusitanian leader who organized resistance against Roman imperialism in Iberia.