Irish Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Moya Cannon and David Ferry (11/10/15)
The Institute for the Study of Irish Culture Presents: A Poetry Reading with Moya Cannon and David Ferry
Tuesday, November 10th at 6 p.m.
The Castle, 225 Bay State Road
Moya Cannon was born in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal in 1956 and lives in Galway. Her first collection, Oar, won the inaugural Brendan Behan Award and, in 2001, she was the recipient of the Laurence O’Shaughnessy Award (University of St. Thomas, Minnesota). A number of her poems have been set to music by Jane O Leary, Philip Martin and Ellen Cranitch, and she has worked with traditional Irish musicians in the context of performance and of translating Gaelic songs. Cannon’s book, Hands, came out from Carcanet Press in 2011. And her fifth collection of poetry, Keats Lives, will appear in September, 2015.
David Ferry’s books of poetry and translation include Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press, 2012), winner of the National Book Award; The Georgics of Virgil(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006); His Epistles of Horace: A Translation (2001); Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press, 1999); The Eclogues of Virgil (1999); and The Odes of Horace: A Translation (1998). Ferry’s awards include the Sixtieth Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, the Teasdale Prize for Poetry, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Award, and the William Arrowsmith Translation Prize from AGNI magazine.
Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Irish Culture, the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning at CGS and the BU Center for the Humanities
Books will be sold at both events. Receptions will follow.
