The Dooble Tongue: Modern Poetry and Translation. University of Aberdeen, 20th January 2018

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Representation or re-presentation?: giving voice to archives.

A discussion of the found poem and erasure as poetic strategies in the interpretation and re-presentation of voices of the past – practical, strategic, ethical aspects.

a presentation given at The Dooble Tongue: Modern Poetry and Translation.  The Herbert Grierson Centre for Textual Criticism and Comparative Literary History, University of Aberdeen.  Saturday 20th January 2018, Sir Duncan Rice Library. 9.45 – 4.30.

Other presentations by Clemence O’Connor, John Goodby, Martin Malone, Lesley Harrison, Patrick Crotty, Deavid Wheatley, Patrick McGuinness, Gill Russel and Maryem Bouzid.

(Image: Captain David Cardno’s the log of the Diana, held in  Aberdeen University Special Collections.  Image @ University of Aberdeen.)

 

 

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Lesley Harrison lives and works on the Angus coast. In her writing, she explores how it is to live at the southern, temperate edge of a much colder northern world. She has held writing residencies in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard. Drawing from archives, folk myth and cultural memory as well as her own explorations and experience, her poetry and prose make real our negotiation with, and our constant striving to give meaning and scale to, this unstable and ultimately unknowable space. She is a member of the North Sea Poets collective - northseapoets.com.

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