Marco Fazzini and Alan Riach celebrate the Poetry of Norman MacCaig A New Bi-lingual Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig

For the Poetry of Norman MacCaig

To celebrate a New Bi-lingual Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig, Marco Fazzini and Alan Riach

Marco Fazzini was born in Ascoli Piceno, Italy in 1962. He lives in Vicenza and is lecturer at the University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice, as well as a freelance critic and translator, foreign contributions editor for the literary journals Ali and Il Tolomeo, and a series editor for the publishing house Edizioni del Bradipo. He has published articles and books on post-colonial literatures and has translated some of the major English-language contemporary poets, such as Douglas Livingstone, Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan, Philip Larkin, Geoffrey Hill, Dionne Brand, Charles Tomlinson, Hugh MacDiarmid, Douglas Dunn, Stephen Gray, etc.

His most recent publications include Crossings: Essays on Contemporary Scottish Poetry and Hybridity (2000), a book on Geoffrey Hill, L’acrobata della memoria (2002), a study on the problems of alterity, Resisting Alterities: Wilson Harris and Other Avatars of Otherness (2004), and a new collection of critical essays on Douglas Livingstone’s poetry, Son to the Ocean (2006). He is also the editor of the first history of Scottish literature published outside Scotland: Alba Literaria (2005), and the author of a book on poetical translations, Tradurre, paradiso dei poeti (2005). His latest books are a study on poetry and songwriting, Canto un mondo libero (2012), and Conversations with Scottish Poets (2015). His major poetry collections are: Nel vortice (1999); XX poesie (2007); Driftings and Wrecks (2010); 24 Selected Poems (San Francisco, HCT Press).

Born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, educated at Cambridge and Glasgow, Alan Riach went to the University of Waikato, New Zealand, as Associate Professor in 1986. He returned to Scotland in 2001 as Reader in the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, where he is now Professor. He is the author of works of criticism on the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid, editor of MacDiarmid’s collected works for Carcanet Press, and has written or edited several volumes on twentieth century Scottish literature. He is co-author with Alexander Moffat of two books on art and culture in modern Scotland. His own poetry includes the collections The MacDiarmid Memorandum, Homecoming, Clearances, First and Last Songs.

The event will take place at: Room 101, 5 University Garden, UofG