Poem-Art Posters

Exploring poetry, translation and the visual arts



CRISTIAN ALIAGA (Argentina) – Poetry

ALEJANDRO MEZZANO (Argentina) – Images

BEN BOLLIG (UK) – Translations



The Artist’s Room, Kendrew Quadrangle

St John's College, St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JP

(access via Kendrew Quadrangle Lodge)



Open daily Mon 31 October - Fri 4 November 2011, 2-4pm and 2-7pm on Thursday.



Cristian Aliaga is a poet, journalist and academic based in Patagonia, and is increasingly recognised as one of Argentina’s outstanding contemporary writers. He has published more than a dozen books of poetry, including the bilingual anthology La causa clínica/The Clinical Cause (2011, Manchester Spanish and Portuguese Studies: New Series). As editor of the pioneering newspaper El extremo sur he works as a cultural promoter and publisher in the far south. Since April he has been in the UK as Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds, supported by the Leverhulme Trust’s Visiting Professorship scheme.



Aliaga has worked with the artist and freelance designer Alejandro Mezzano (Rosario, Argentina) and a translator, Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), to turn phrases from his poems into bilingual poetry-posters. These works explore the relationship between different languages and between different media. Mixing design, literature, and translation, these poem-art-posters seek to take poetry off the page of the book and into new spaces.



A bilingual poetry reading by Cristian Aliaga (Spanish and English)



Aliaga will read from his work in Spanish, with English translations read by Bollig.



Thursday 3 November, 5.30pm.

The Barn, Kendrew Quadrangle

St John's College, St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JP

(access via Kendrew Quadrangle Lodge)



The organisers are grateful for the support of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford; St Catherine's College, Oxford; St John's College, Oxford; and the Leverhulme Trust.