After Bashō, Sketches from the Poem Road: Bronze and the Art of Translation

To coincide with the current exhibition by Isao Miura and Chris Beckett, ‘Sketches from the Poem Road (after Matsuo Bashō’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North)’, which runs from 20 June to 15 July, the Poetry Centre presents a stimulating evening of talks and discussion on the subject of artistic and literary translation. It will feature John Nicoll (Chelsea Foundry), Nathalie Aubert (Professor of French Literature, Oxford Brookes), David Constantine (poet and translator), Sasha Dugdale (poet and editor of Modern Poetry in Translation) and Thomas McAuley (Lecturer in Japanese at the University of Sheffield and translator of many Japanese poems), chaired by Niall Munro, director of Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre.