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Laura Wittner – Translation of the Route

Translated by Mexican-Scottish poet Juana Adcock

Wednesday 16 October 2024, 18:00 at Creative Lounge

£8/£7

Translation of the Route is the first collection by award-winning Argentine poet Laura Wittner to be available in English translation. In poems that are precise, frank and finely tuned, Wittner explores the specificities of daily life – thunder at night, coffee stains, fleeting conversations and the rest – as well as parental love, life after marriage, and the reignition of the self in middle age. Laura Wittner is joined by her translator, the Mexican-Scottish poet Juana Adcock, for a dual-language reading from Translations of the Route, followed by a Q&A with chair Erica Hesketh.

Erica Hesketh is a Japanese-Danish poet based in London. From 2016 to 2024 she was the Director of the Poetry Translation Centre, a charity which champions poets and poetries in translation from around the world.


This event will be BSL interpreted

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