Reading: Jenni Fagan and Niall O’Gallagher
Performers for this event
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Peter Mackay
Peter Mackay
Peter Mackay / Pàdraig MacAoidh is a poet, lecturer and broadcaster. 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). He writes in Gàidhlig and English, and his work has been translated into Czech, French, German, Irish, Occitan, Macedonian and Slovakian. His academic work includes This Strange Loneliness: Heaney’s Wordsworth (2021) and Sorley MacLean (2011); he is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of St Andrews, and has been an AHRC / Radio 3 New Generation Thinker.
‘S e bàrd, craoladair agus oraidaiche a th’ann am Pàdraig MacAoidh. Tha dà leabhar bàrdachd aige, Gu Leòr (Acair 2015) agus Nàdur De (Acair 2020), agus pamflaid, From Another Island (Clutag, 2010). Bidh e a’ sgrìobhadh anns a’ Ghàidhlig agus a’ Bheurla, agus chaidh an obair aige eadar-theangachadh gu Beurla, Fraingis, Gaeilge, Gearmalitis, Masadonais, Ogsatainis, Seicis, agus Slòbhacais. Mar oraidiche tha e ag obair aig Oilthigh Chill Ribhinn, agus tha e air sgrìobhadh This Strange Loneliness: Heaney’s Wordsworth (2021) and Sorley MacLean (2011); tha e cuideachd na New Generation leis an AHRC / BBC Radio 3.
Event Details
Readings from the poet and novelist Jenni Fagan, and Glasgow’s first Gaelic laureate, Niall O’Gallagher. Though better known for her novels, such as The Panopticon and The Sunlight Pilgrims, Fagan
Event Details
Readings from the poet and novelist Jenni Fagan, and Glasgow’s first Gaelic laureate, Niall O’Gallagher. Though better known for her novels, such as The Panopticon and The Sunlight Pilgrims, Fagan is also an accomplished poet, whose work fizzes with intimate, direct addresses and unfiltered emotion. Hailed by Aonghas MacNeacail as one of the key poets rendering Gaelic into an “essentially urban voice”, O’Gallagher’s work plays with classical metrical and syllabic forms, rendering modern life in some of this country’s oldest poetic forms.
Jenni Fagan is an award-winning novelist, poet, screenwriter and artist. She has published several fiction novels and poetry collections, and her work has been translated into numerous languages. Niall O’Gallagher is a poet, translator, and journalist, and the City of Glasgow’s first Gaelic Poet Laureate. Poet and translator Peter Mackay will be providing translations for some of the readings in this event.
In partnership with The Gaelic Books Council.
Please note: Jenni Fagan will be appearing virtually.
