The Language Hub: Poetry and Translation

Fingal County Libraries

Sessions on poetry and translation as part of Cultúr 2026 celebrating Ireland's EU presidency.

The Chapel, Swords Castle

As part of Cultúr 2026 - the country-wide cultural programme celebrating Ireland's EU presidency - poet Christodoulos Makris has curated a series of four linked sessions on poetry and translation that explore connectivity through language.Centred on language as a means of connection and cultural exchange, the programme will explore how poetry can foster dialogue across borders and traditions. Poets, writers and translators visiting from across Europe and within Ireland will present their work - in English, Latvian, Italian, Dutch and Irish - and discuss their creative and translational practices in an informal and participatory setting.Schedule:11am: Kimberly Campanello &amp; Nicoletta AsciutoIndependent and collaborative literary navigations between Italian and English, past and present.Kimberly Campanello is the author of the poetry-object and durational performance MOTHERBABYHOME. Her latest poetry collection An Interesting Detail (Bloomsbury) and debut novel Use the Words You Have (Somesuch Editions) were both published last year. She is Professor of Poetry and Director of Poetry@Leeds at the University of Leeds.Nicoletta Asciuto is Reader in Modern Literature at the University of York. She is the author of Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025) and has published various articles on modernist poetry, as well as literary translations, including the first Italian translation of Kimberly Campanello’s “Moving Nowhere Here” (in Poesia: rivista internazionale di cultura poetica, vol. 32, 2025).12pm: Sophie CollinsExpanded approaches to translation, its political implications, and translating poetry and prose from the Dutch.Sophie Collins is the author of small white monkeys (Book Works, 2017) and Who Is Mary Sue? (Faber &amp; Faber, 2018). She is the editor of an anthology of translations, Currently &amp; Emotion (Test Centre, 2016), and is the translator, from the Dutch, of Lieke Marsman's The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes (Pavilion Poetry, 2019), a Poetry Book Society Choice, and The Opposite of a Person (Daunt Books, 2021), which was awarded the TA First Translation Prize. 1pm - 2pm: Break2pm: Ligija PurinašaPoetry in Latgalian - a historical-regional variant of Latvian - minority languages, and feminist priorities.Ligija Purinaša is a poet and journalist writing in Latgalian and Latvian. She has published three critically acclaimed poetry collections including Magnificat (2025), shortlisted for the Best Poetry Collection at the Annual Latvian Literature Awards.3pm: Ciara Ní ÉHybrid poetry in Irish and English, self-translation, and toggling between the page and performance.Ciara Ní É is a poet, performer, and filmmaker. She is the founder of the bilingual spoken word event REIC, co-founder of queer arts collective AerachAiteachGaelach, and was named one of the 100 Women Changing Ireland by the Irish Examiner. Christodoulos Makris has published five books of poetry, as well as several pamphlets, artists’ books, digital projects, audiovisual works and other poetry objects. His work has appeared in Granta, The Stinging Fly, The Guardian, The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, and elsewhere. He is the poetry editor at gorse journal.

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