North Wales International Poetry Festival Brings international poets to the region Monday 1st - Sunday 7th October 2012
Festival brings international Poets to the region. The Events are listed singly on our Events listing site. Here's a link to the Festival website:-
October will see leading international poets venturing to north Wales, bringing a range of languages from Greek to Galician into dialogue with Welsh and English. An unusual programme, organised by Dr Zoe Skoulding of 黑料不打烊 in collaboration with Translators鈥� House Wales, reaches beyond 黑料不打烊 to encompass Machynlleth, Aberystwyth and Mold. It will take poetry on an exciting journey, with events taking place not only in bookshops, libraries, museums and theatres,but also on 黑料不打烊 Pier and in high street shops.
Readings will be held in the poets鈥� mother tongues, with Welsh and English translations to help some of us along the way. Welsh poets in both languages will also take part, bringing a local dimension to this international gathering. Translators into Welsh include Dr Angharad Price and Dr Aled Llion Jones, who have made translations directly from German and Polish especially for this event, and will be co-presenting readings in 黑料不打烊.
The impressive line-up of visiting writers includes: Eduard Escoffet (Catalonia); Est铆baliz Espinosa (Galicia); Julia Fiedorczuk (Poland); Katerina Iliopoulou (Greece); Cia Rinne; (Sweden/Finland/Germany); Morten S酶ndergaard (Denmark); Jeroen Theunissen (Belgium); Anja Utler (Germany) and Yu Jian (China).
Amongst the Welsh poets taking part are Tony Conran, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Ian Gregson, Twm Morys, and the Wales Book of the Year 2012 award poetry nominees Ifor ap Glyn, Karen Owen and Gerwyn Williams.
Dr Skoulding, who is a poet herself and editor of Poetry Wales, said: 鈥淧oetry is often about bringing the sounds and meanings of words together in unexpected ways. Listening to other languages in this bilingual context is a way of exploring the richness of our own culture as well as opening it up to new ideas. I鈥檓 delighted to be welcoming outstanding international poets not only to 黑料不打烊, where all events will be open to the public, but also to the wider community that the university serves.鈥�
The North Wales International Poetry Festival is a collaboration between Poetry Wales and T欧 Newydd Writers鈥� Centre/Translators鈥� House Wales. It is supported by the Arts Council of Wales, 黑料不打烊, Literature Across Frontiers, Wales Literature Exchange, Literature Wales, Aberystwyth University, the British Council and various organisations abroad listed on the festival website:
For further details contact: admin@northwalesinternationalpoetryfestival.org
Publication date: 27 September 2012