Translation of the Route at Off the Shelf Festival, with Laura Wittner and Juana Adcock
Wed 16 Oct 2024, 6pm
Venue: Creative Lounge, Sheffield
Address: The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX
Translation of the Route is the first collection by award-winning Argentine poet Laura Wittner to be available in English translation, published by Bloodaxe and the Poetry Translation Centre. At this event, Laura Wittner is joined by her translator, the Mexican-Scottish poet Juana Adcock, for a dual-language reading from Translation 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.
In collaboration with Poetry Translation Centre 20th Birthday Celebration.
