Annual Robert Welch Memorial Lecture in Literature
Words from Elsewhere: In the Light of Aisling
Annual Robert Welch Memorial Lecture in Literature
Ciaran Carson, Seamus Heaney Chair of Poetry, Queen's University, Belfast will deliver the Annual Robert Welch Memorial Lecture in Literature
Ciaran will be reading from his translations of Dante’s Inferno, Brian Merriman’s Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (The Midnight Court), Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations, and the poetry of Jean Follain, linking them to the aisling or ‘dream vision’ tradition. L'epingle: The Pin translated from the French of Jean Follain Face to the tide the city looms the flukes of a troop of whales beat together beneath the clouds in spite of all one can hear the pin that drops off a chimney mantel on to a blade of parquet floor no one has waxed for years. |
