We invite you to read Scott Dalgarno’s translations of the poetry of Du Fu, which appear in the current issue of Adroit Journal. A hugely influential poet of eighth century China, Du Fu has nearly 1500 surviving poems. You can find Scott’s translations and readings of three of them here.
The poems include
- Moonlight: Thinking of My Brothers
- From a Height
- Facing Snow
Winner of the 2025 Write 10 Contest
You should know about Scott’s recent win of the Write 10 Contest. His winning poem, Thunder Snow at Midnight was exactly ten words. You can learn more about this accolade here.
Scott’s New Poetry Collection Third-Class Relics
We would like you to read more than just ten words of Scott Dalgarno’s poetry. Consider getting a copy of his poetry anthology Third-Class Relics from MoonPath Press. The anthology contains fifty poems, each uniformly longer than ten words.
Third-Class Relics is now out on Moon Path Press. Buy your own copy at any of these online retailers:
Scott Dalgarno reads selections from Third-Class Relics on the MoonPath Press YouTube channel:
What people are saying about Third-Class Relics:
The pleasures provided by Scott Dalgarno’s Third-Class Relics are abundant. In evidence are a discerning mind, a musical ear, a witty intellect, and a bruised but open heart. With precise diction, compelling narratives, and smoot, inviting language, Dalgarno examines a wide array of subjects. Here is a poet at ease with unease. In one poem, he defines limbo as a place where “Kettle never boils; dog circles / and circles but never lies down.” In another, he addresses an “unrealized” zygote this way: “Your not being here / is everywhere.” For me, a good poem both enterains and disturbs, the latter by shaking us from a complacency. Scott Dalgarno’s book is filled with such poems. Third-Class Relics is a first-class triumph.
– Andrea Hollander, author of And Now, Nowhere But Here
“There go the swallows / taking it out on the morning,” writes Dalgarno, whose collection is a stirring portrayal of a life pulled into focus. The poems in Third-Clss Relics ask us to reckon with the lyric tension of our lives in the metaphoric borderland of so many kinds of rapture. It arrives with a fresh and clear voice that invites its reader to remember they are always already a viewer, a visitor, and a voyeur, too.
-Meg Day, author of Last Psalm at Sea Level
