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In her translation memoir This Little Art, Kate Briggs writes eloquently about the importance of allowing everyone to try their hand at ‘doing’ translations, about the way translation stretches us, teaching us about language, form, content. Translation, Briggs argues, is an opportunity for an ‘open and shared adventure’. Over the course of 2021, StAnza worked together with Kyiv’s Book Arsenal festival, inviting eight poets from Scotland and Ukraine to join us on this adventure. With the help of translator Uilleam Blacker, they transposed poetry between English, Shetlandic, Scots, Ukrainian and Hutsul. Join us today for the finale of ‘Beyond Any Curtain’, in which we’ll be hearing poetry, translations and creative versions from Hannah Lavery, Roseanne Watt, Andrew Blair and Vicki Husband, and Les Beley, Olena Huseinova, Myroslav Laiuk and Lyuba Yakymchuk.

We’re delighted that Lyuba Yakimchuk is hoping to be able to join us in person, and Olena Huseinova plans to join us on Zoom. Hannah Lavery and Vicki Husband will be performing in person, while Andrew Blair, Roseanne Watt and Uilleam Blacker will be reading via Zoom. All proceeds from this event will go to the Ukrainian aid and relief efforts.

Live in St Andrews, and livestreamed on our website and YouTube channel.

Beyond Any Curtain (Scottish/Ukrainian translation project) is supported by the European Union under the House of Europe programme.