Join us for an exciting evening discussing Adalber Salas' dual-language poetry collection, Isolario/Isolarium. Hosted by Bristol's Caribbean Studies Studio and Bristol Poetry Institute, with the support of the University of Bristol's Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Department, this event will be a celebration of poetry. 

Date:
Tuesday 1st of April 

Venue:
Arts Complex LT3

The University of Bristol.

Time:

5:30pm - 7:00pm

Tickets:

Due to the venue's capacity, and to guarantee your seat, we would appreciate if people could register their attendance through the booking system. 

You don't need to bring your ticket with you, we will have a list of names on the door.

Books will be available to buy on the night for the standard price, £10.99. 

About Isolario/Isolarium

The landmass of Venezuela looks over the Caribbean Sea. From its coast, on clear days, you can see islands, from Aruba to its west, to Trinidad on its east. Adalber Salas Hernández’s collection begins in geography and history – his grandparents came from an island elsewhere – when islands are small, people are often forced to leave them. From these concrete beginnings, this dual language collection, in Spanish and in Robin Myers’ beautiful and musical English translation, moves inwards to the mind and outwards in space, and backwards and forwards in time, to wonder just what islands are. 

As Nicholas Laughlin, poet and Literary Director of the Bocas Litfest, writes: 
“In the atlas of our dreams, islands hover like mirages on a horizon, equally allegiant to earth, air, and sea. Adalber Salas Hernández’s Islarium — not a single island but an infinity of islands — is similarly, equally, allegiant to both memory and fantasy, to myth and geology, to proliferations of here and elsewhere. Preferring ‘the small, the partial, the fragmentary,’ these texts — essays? poems? — reveal a mind more restless and curious than any ocean current, attentive to the sheer weird lyricism of the human imagination.”

About Adalber Salas Hernández

Adalber Salas Hernández is a Venezuelan poet, essayist and translator. He is the author of several books of poems, most recently Salvoconducto (2015, winner of the XXXVI Arcipreste de Hita Prize), Río en blanco (2016), and mínimos (2016). He has published translations of Marguerite Duras, Antonin Artaud, Charles Wright, and Mário de Andrade, among others. He is currently working on his PhD degree in Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature at New York University.

https://www.peepaltreepress.com/authors/adalber-salas-hernandez

About Bristol Caribbean Studies Studio ~

The Caribbean Studies Studio is a community of scholars, writers, scientists and creative practitioners whose work spans the greater Caribbean and its diasporas. Their research, practice and events foster transdisciplinary exchanges across local, national and planetary scales.

https://caribbeanstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

About Bristol Poetry Institute ~

The Bristol Poetry Institute, a part of the University of Bristol, is an organisation committed to the advancement of poetry. It exists to facilitate and to advocate for the study, research, practice and reading of poetry, and to promote poetry to the widest possible University, local and regional audience.

The Bristol Poetry Institute works as a poetry hub and a focal point for poetry within the University and the City of Bristol. To this end, the Bristol Poetry Institute encourages collaboration and engagement between University departments, local schools, the public, community partners and local organisations.

https://poetry.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/