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. Led by Pàdraig MacAoidh / Peter Mackay, the Scottish makar, who writes in Gaelic and English.
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.
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).
Date: Wednesday 20 May 2026, 7.00 - 9.00pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: Pay as you can - £30-Free
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