John Manson
This event on 6th August 2011 has past.
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Hearing John Manson read is to rub shoulders with Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard from France, Eugenio Montale from Italy, Raphael Albertini from Spain and the legendary Pablo Neruda from Chile – poets who began their careers in the 1920s and who shaped 20th century European poetry. John, a widely published poet, translator and scholar, received the first ever Scottish Arts Council award for translation and is currently translating a remarkable, haunting and sometimes surreal series of poems by Aragon - Les Chambres - poems about rooms Aragon shared with his wife during their long marriage. This is a rare chance to hear a poet who welded together the Scottish and European literary traditions.
John will be joined by Solway Poet Elspeth Brown, and local favourites Katy Ewing and Derek Ross who read their work after the interval.
Price: £8.00 / £7.00
Time: 7:00pm for 7:30pm
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