George Szirtes' choice for Summer 2019 is Lieke Marsman's very personal collection The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes, translated from Dutch by Sophie Collins, published by Pavilion Poetry.
Monday 25 February 2019 1 – 2 p.m. University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Creative Conversations.
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Booking is recommended. To attend this event, please RSVP to fiveleaves.bookshopevents@gmail.com. In 2014 she received an Eric Gregory Award and was a poet in residence at the LUMA/Westbau exhibition space in Zürich.
Her translations of contemporary Dutch poet Lieke Marsman were recently published in Asymptote. Looks Live. I interviewe Collins in The John Hewitt, Belfast, December 15th, 2014. I was not familiar with any os the Writers until this volume. She is co-editor of tender, an online arts quarterly, and editor of Currently & Emotion (2016), an anthology of contemporary poetry translations. I believe in the power of words and in sharing that power with others. I’m a poet and creative educator. -Two out of three is not bad . This article is posted in: Blog, Events, Interviews. – Sophie Collins, ‘Dear No. You can't like all poetry. Sophie Collins She received an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in 2014. George Szirtes' choice for Summer 2019 is Lieke Marsman's very personal collection The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes, translated from Dutch by Sophie Collins, published by Pavilion Poetry. As a response to the growing intersection between art and poetry today, the Associate Poet programme continues a long-standing interest and engagement with language and poetry throughout the ICA’s history. 24601’ Admission for this event is £5 (£3 concession) and refreshments will be available. Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Glasgow University. small white monkeys, a text on self-expression, self-help and shame, was published in 2017 as part of a commissioned residency at Glasgow Women’s Library. She is currently editing an anthology of experimental translations due late 2015 via Test Centre, London. Throughout his career Collins has taught at a variety of institutions across the United States and Ireland and served as U.S. He was later named poet laureate for the State of New York, a position he held for another two years. To attend this event, please RSVP to fiveleaves.bookshopevents@gmail.com.
Poet Sophie Collins at Creative Conversations. I have a background in teaching and have taught in a wide spectrum of settings, from hidden gem community centres to bursting-at-the-seams secondary schools. small white monkeys, a text on self-expression, self-help and shame, was published in 2017 as part of a commissioned residency at Glasgow Women’s Library. Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and now lives in Edinburgh. She won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in 2014. Published last year by Test Centre, Sophie Collins’ Currently and Emotion: Translations , edited and with a theoretical Preface, is an exploration of the possibilities of poetry translation. – Sophie Collins, ‘Dear No. Poetry, Feminism and the Politics of Translation: An Interview with Sophie Collins. PBS Translation Members will soon be receiving the Summer PBS Recommended Translation. Booking is recommended. Sophie Collins is a different poet altogether. Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and now lives in Edinburgh. PBS Translation Members will soon be receiving the Summer PBS Recommended Translation. 24601’ Admission for this event is £5 (£3 concession) and refreshments will be available. Sophie Collins grew up in North Holland and now lives in Edinburgh.