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In her translation memoir, This Little Art, Kate Briggs writes eloquently and passionately 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, we 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 in St Andrews, and that Olena Huseinova plans to join us Zoom. We’re grateful that Uilleam Blacker will be joining us to read any Ukrainian poems of poets who are unable to take part. All proceeds from this event will go to the Ukrainian aid and relief efforts.

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