Join us for our rescheduled poetry evening this month, where we will welcome Rody Gorman to read for us. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear Rody read from his latest publication, “Sweeney”. In this hugely ambitious multilingual work Rody recasts the medieval Irish text Buile Shuibhne – also known as ‘The Frenzy of Sweeney’ – into English, Irish and Scottish Gaelic.
An utterly extraordinary work … The variety, energy and invention is dazzling – Robert Macfarlane
This is a masterly sequence of poems – Peter MacKay
Please come along on Thursday 27th March, at 7.30pm. All are welcome. Copies of ‘Sweeney: an intertonguing’ will also be available to buy for £25.
Rody will also be leading a writing workshop on Thursday 27th March, from 2-4pm. Tickets are free of charge but must be booked in advance.
Rody Gorman was born in Dublin in 1960 and now lives on Skye. He lectures in creative writing and edits the annual bilingual anthology An Guth. He also works as an official and literary translator, with versions to his name of work by Cavafy, Yeats, Neruda, Milosz, Rósewicz, Popa, Holub, Aspenstrom and Snyder amongst others translated into Gaelic.
Rody has published collections of his own poetry in English, Irish and Scottish Gaelic including Fax(1996), Flora From Lusitania (2005) and Zonda? Khamsin? Sharaav? Camanchaca? (2006) and Beartan Briste/Burstbrokenshroudloomdeeds (2011). His selected poems, Chernilo, were published in 2006. His most recent collections are Trìtheamhan (2017), Cuala, Dothra (2021) and Lorg Eile/Final Call (2022).
This event is funded by Live Literature.
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