The Instituto Cervantes Dublin, the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation and Dedalus Press, are pleased to present and evening of Galician and Irish poetry in celebration of the coming World Book Day. Hosted by Irish poet and translator based in Spain, Keith Payne.
In dialogue with each other and our fragile ecosystem, some 40 contemporary poets (among them Paddy Bushe, Olga Novo, Michael Longley, Daniel Salgado, Paula Meehan, Luz Pichel, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Xavier Queipo and Grace Wells) question the way we live in this world and how we celebrate our intimate relationship with all living things.
Guests writers Daniel Salgado (Galicia, Spain), Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe (Ireland) and Keith Payne, will read poems in English and Galician and will discuss on topics such as the making of the anthology A Different Eden. Ecopoetry (Un Edén diferente) (Dedalus press, 2021), the poems included, ecopoetry, translation and any other topics that may arise.
Followed by Q&A from the audience.
Artists bios
Keith Payne is the 2021-22 John Broderick Writer in Residence and has published six collections of poetry in translation from Galician and Spanish as well as Broken Hill, his debut collection. He was a previous awardee of the Irish Chair of Poetry Bursary, is director of the La Malinche Readings between Ireland and Galicia and co-editor of A Different Eden: Ecopoetry from Ireland and Galicia (Dedalus Press, 2021).
Daniel Salgado is a Spanish poet and translator who has published ten collections to date, the most recent, Os paxaros e outros poemas (Birds and Other Poems) (Xerais), was published in 2021. A selection of his poetry has been translated into Spanish as Huelga general (Marisma, 2018) and his work is also included in several anthologies. Salgado has translated the works of Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti into Galician and co-authored journalistic political essays.
Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is a poet, pacifist and fabulist. The recipient of a Next Generation Artist Award in Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland, she serves on the Expert Advisory Committee of Culture Ireland as well as the Advisory Board of Diversifying Irish Poetry. Auguries of a Minor God (Faber & Faber, 2021), her first collection, is currently shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
