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12 West Street
Old Market
Bristol BS2 0BH
Join the Caribbean Studies Studio for an evening of poetry, as Adalber Salas Hernández introduces his latest poetry collection, Isolario / Isolarium
Join us for an exciting evening discussing Adalber Salas’ dual-language poetry collection, Isolario/Islarium. Hosted by Bristol’s Caribbean Studies Studio and Bristol Poetry Institute, with the support of the University of Bristol’s Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Department, this event will be a celebration of poetry.
Tickets are free and can be reserved here. (You will also have the option of advance ordering a copy of the book.)
The Bristol Poetry Institute is pleased to join the Institute for Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition in hosting Professor Philip Terry (University of Essex) for an exciting event featuring readings and discussion of Dante’s Purgatorio.
Thu 6 Feb 2025 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Lecture Theatre 3, Woodland Road Complex, Arts Complex, Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1TB
Access is via the main entrance at 7 Woodland Road.
Book your free ticket here
Professor Terry will read some cantos from his recent translation and updating of Dante’s Purgatorio, where the poet and his guide climb a mountain made out of Flexible Rock Substitute (FRS). Dante’s artists are replaced with contemporary artists and artists-in-residence including Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, and Damien Hirst. On the final terrace the poet reaches Dante’s Paradise, here modelled on the Eden Project.
Philip will discuss the task of translation and translators’ approaches to Dante through the ages with a panel of Bristol academics from Italian, English, Classics, and Translation Studies. All welcome!
This event is brought to you with support from the Department of English and the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol. For access requirements and queries, contact: poetry-institute@bristol.ac.uk.
The Bristol Poetry Institute, in coordination with Bristol HiPLA and the Caribbean Studies Studio, is pleased to host Víctor Rodríguez Núñez and Katherine Hedeen for an interactive afternoon discussion of translation and poetry.
Talking Translation with Katherine Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
Thursday 31 October
3-4 PM
University of Bristol, Physics Building 3.27
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez is one of Cuba’s most outstanding and celebrated contemporary writers, with over seventy collections of his poetry published throughout the world. He has been the recipient of major awards all over the Spanish-speaking region, including the Loewe Foundation Prize in 2015. His selected poems have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Macedonian, Serbian, Swedish, and Vietnamese. His work has developed an enthusiastic readership in the US and the UK, where he has published eight book-length translations, including thaw/deshielos (Arc, 2013), from a red barn (co im press, 2020) and rebel matter. poems 2002-20212 (Shearsman, 2022).
Katherine M. Hedeen is a prize-winning translator of poetry and essayist. A specialist in Latin American poetry, she has translated some of the most respected voices from the region into English, including Jorge Enrique Adoum, Antonio Gamoneda, Fina García Marruz and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. She is the co-editor, with Welsh poet Zoë Skoulding, of the groundbreaking transatlantic translation anthology, Poetry’s Geographies (Shearsman, 2022).
Join the Bristol Poetry Institute to celebrate the 60th anniversary of US poet Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems, purportedly written during the poet’s lunch break from his job at the Museum of Modern Art. We will gather together to read the book aloud over our own sack lunches. All welcome!
Lunch with Lunch Poems
Thursday 9 May
1-2 PM
Royal Fort Gardens (near the mirrors), Bristol BS8 1UH
Rain location: PHYS BLDG 3.34
Date: Thursday 18th April
Venue: Watershed (Cinema 3)
Time: 20:00- 22:00 (please note: this was previously listed as a 19:30 start)
Book Launch: Secret Poetics (no event link, just turn up)
Page Against the Machine: Poetry and AI
We are delighted to announce that this year’s Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading by Don Paterson will take place on 7 February 2024 at 6PM in the Wills Memorial Building Great Hall.
The Bristol Poetry Institute, with the support of the Department of English and the School of Modern Languages, are very pleased to present Don Paterson as this year’s annual reader. The event will last one hour and comprise of a poetry reading. A 30-minute book signing with the poet will follow the reading.
Don Paterson is the author of numerous works of poetry and non-fiction; his writing has won many awards, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, all three Forward Prizes, and the T. S. Eliot Prize on two occasions. He was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009; he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the English Association and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and for many years taught at the University of St Andrews, where he is now Emeritus Professor of Poetry in the School of English. From 1997 to 2022, Paterson was poetry editor at Picador. For most of his life he has also worked as a jazz musician and composer. He lives in Kirriemuir, Scotland.
Award-winning poet Ruth Padel will read her new poems inspired by the ‘Snake Goddess’ figurines found at Knossos (Crete) over a century ago. This event is part of the collaborative, international project ‘The Many Lives of a Snake Goddess‘ and is organised in collaboration with the IGRCT.
The Peel Lecture Theatre, Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, BS8 1SS
Thu 16 Nov 2023 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Please join us downstairs in the Hepple Room for a free wine reception after the event.
If you are unable to join us in-person, you can register to watch online (you do not need to book a place via TicketTailor)
Date: Tuesday, October 31
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. EDT
Please join us for a selection of poetry readings and performance by Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi and Giannisi’s poet-translator Brian Sneeden, in conversation with Laura Jansen.
Award-winner Phoebe Giannisi (Athens, 1964) is among Greece’s foremost contemporary poets. She is the author of eight books of poetry, three of which, Homerica (2017), Chimera (2019), and Cicada (2022), have now been translated into English by poet-translator Brian Sneeden. Her award-winning work focuses on field of ecopoetics, on the polyphony of voices attached to place, and the ethnography of the animated subjects that inhabit it. Bodies, weather, earth, seeds, orality, writing, love, female condition, mythic personas, sound, multiplicity, language, and animal beings constitute the primary subjects for Giannisi’s poetic activity. This hybrid event offers a unique opportunity to experience Giannisi’s performative poetry both in modern Greek and English, followed by an in-conversation about her multimediatic poetic practice and thought.
This event will be held virtually on Zoom, as well as in person. Please register for the Zoom here.
The Bristol Poetry Institute is proud to support this event, hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard) in collaboration with the APGRD (University of Oxford), the Michael Marks Trust, and New Directions Publishing.