Maria Baranda, 'If we have lost our oldest tales'

Lorna Shaughnessy's translation of a long poem by contemporary Mexican poet Maria Baranda, 'If we have lost our oldest tales', will be launched in
Galway City Library on Monday 20th March at 6pm.
The cover design is by Aoife Casby.

Lorna will also be reading at Cuirt Festival/Over The Edge showcase reading
in the Town Hall Theatre at 11:30am on Thursday, April 27th 2006.

Mexico city, 1962 • María Baranda is author of six books of poems, including Eljardín de los encantamientos, Fábula de los perdidos, Los memoriosos, Moradas imposibles, which received the 1998 Villa de Madrid Prize in Spain, and Nadie, los ojos. She lives in Cuernavaca with her husband, fiction and short-story writer FranciscoHinojosa, and her two daughters.

Lorna Shaughnessy was born in Belfast and lives in Moycullen, Co Galway. Her poems have appeared in various Irish literary journals, anthologies, and in a pamphlet published by Lapwing Press, “Song of the Forgotten Shulamite” (June 2005). She was shortlisted for the Galway Firewords Poetry award in 2004 and her translations of two collections of contemporary Mexican poetry will be published by Arlen House in December 2005 and April 2006