Was so wonderful to hear from Canario de la Cruz, Edgar Darinel García, & Miriam Hernández ch'ol at last night’s Lyra Bristol Poetry event with Girasol Press!

la jop ta vots'el ja bij xchu'uk ik'al obok la jpat slok'olal ja sat la kikta k'usba jun nak'ubalil ta jun xokol naj I kneaded your name with clay and soot molded the deity of your likeness and I set it like a shadow on the altar of an abandoned house E D García Girasol Press

Gracias Miguel! 🐌 Poesía de Miriam Hernández ch'ol, Canario de la Cruz y Edgar Darinel Garcia en Ch'ol y Tsotsil

Qué interesante!

Looks essential 👇

Girasoles out in the world: Jukub Rincon Zapatista DF; our books hanging w/ comrades at Poetry in Transatlantic Translation conference, Bangor; and the @CPP_Sheffield launch of Alex/Rose's Say, Spirit. Somehow didn't get any of the booktable from our Lyra Bristol Poetry event in April!

Friday!

Calling all Black Literary Translators, Teachers, Students and readers who work with French and English, I am recruiting participants for my PhD study: A Radical Intervention: Translating Blackness in Black Caribbean Literature. Please share with your communities. Love & light 🙏🏿

Thanks @AMcMillanPoet for your kind words about Alex/Rose's marvellous *Say, Spirit*. We are looking forward to listening to Alex talking about Michelangelo &/in translation on BBC Radio 4, going out in March - stay tuned!

Thanks leoboi.xx for including *Jukub: Poems from Chiapas for the Reverse Conquest* in this review roundup Morning Star! Still a few copies left: girasolpress.co.uk/jukub

¡Ojo!

If anyone has recommendations of bilingual poets in Bristol who perform in non-European languages, I'm really interested to hear about them! Poetry Translation Centre Bristol Poetry Institute @rkokayokay Girasol Press

Jukub in Buffalo's amazing Burning Books!

Lots going on at Girasol Towers* *the spare bedroom We were in the Guardian Books! So many thanks to Andrew McMillan for recommending Alex/Rose's Say, Spirit in the new LGBTQ+ lit list. If you ordered a copy, it's coming soon, sorry!

Update.

We are Lyra Bristol Poetry this Saturday! 'Translation & Displacement', headlined by Sudanese poet Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, hosted by Poetry Translation Centre. We'll share forthcoming book *Inside* for the 1st time: prison poetry from the Argentinian dictatorship. Free, 2pm: lyrafest.com/#e105208

Thanks Lyra Bristol Poetry & Watershed for having us on Saturday as part of *Translation & Displacement*, to Stephen Watts & Poetry Translation Centre for organising & chairing, & to Al-Saddiq Al-Radd, Sabrin Hasbun & Ibrahim Hirsi for gorgeous, stirring multilingual performances. A grand afternoon!

Mañana! lunchtime poetry interval at BSU's Colloquium of Global Philosophies 24: DECIPHERING THE ETHICS OF LAND OWNERSHIP, soft launching *Xtámbaa/Landskin/Piel de tierra*, trilingual pub by Hubert Matiúwàa/gusanosdelamemoria /Juana Adcock. Free, tix here: ticketsource.co.uk/bath-spa-unive….