Join us to welcome in Poetry Spring on Saturday 30 April at St John's College, an afternoon of poetry workshops, discussions and readings with British and international poets. All the events are free but places must be booked via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-spring-festival-valzhyna-mort-and-eilean-ni-chuilleanain-readings-tickets-313279656887?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Poetry Spring is organised by Mina Gorji (Pembroke College) and Sasha Dugdale (St John's College) and is funded by St John's College and a grant from the Judith E Wilson Fund.
Born 1942 in Cork, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin taught English Renaissance literature at Trinity College, Dublin from 1966 to 2011. She was Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2016-19. She has published eleven collections of poetry; the latest, The Mother House, received the Irish Times/ Poetry Now award in 2019. Her Collected Poems appeared in 2020 from Gallery Press and was awarded the Pigott Prize at the Listowel Writers' Week in 2021. She has published translations of poetry from several languages, most recently Dánta Antonella Anedda, translated from Italian into Irish, published by Cois Life in 2019.
Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of three poetry collections, Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) and, mostly recently, Music for the Dead and Resurrected (FSG, 2020), named one of the best poetry books of 2020 by The New York Times and The NPR, and the winner of the 2020 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
