This masterclass will explore poetry that lives in-between languages, whether tip-toeing along the edges of those languages or jumping deep into etymological poems.

WED 20 MAY
7.00 - 9.00pm

SLIPS OF THE TONGUE: WRITING IN MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE

This masterclass will explore poetry that lives in-between languages, whether tip-toeing along the edges of those languages or jumping deep into etymological poems. It will look at macaronic writing, bilingualism, ‘writing in the gutter’, and poems that have conversations, arguments and contests with themselves through linguistic double or tripleness; and the effect this has on ideas of poetic authority and power. You don’t have to be fluent in more than one language in this masterclass; but it will help if you love to mess around in the nooks and crannies of dictionaries.

Hosted by Moniack Mhor on Zoom Pro.

Tutor
Pàdraig MacAoidh / Peter Mackay is the Scottish makar, and writes in Gaelic and English: he has also – with a lot of help from the dictionary, and guess work – translated from or responded to poems in from Irish, Spanish, Catalan, Danish and Occitan. He has two collections of poems, Nàdur De (Some Kind of, 2020) and Gu Leòr (Galore, 2015), published by Acair, and a pamphlet, From Another Island, with Clutag Press (2010).

We are running this as a ‘pay as you can’ event with available tickets between £0 and £30.