EUNIC Book Club: 'Days of Grace' by Doris Kareva

Doris Kareva will be in conversation with Peter Sirr about her poetry collection Days of Grace. 

Doris Kareva is an Estonian poet, editor and translator. She has published 13 poetry collections, including her acclaimed collection 'Days of Grace'. Her work has been translated into some 30 languages. Kareva has edited anthologies of Estonian poetry and she has translated the work of Auden, Beckett, Dickinson and Shakespeare, among others, into Estonian. She has twice been awarded the State Cultural Prize, as well as other awards and honours. Days of Grace was translated from Estonian into English by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov.

Peter Sirr lives and works in Dublin. The Gallery Press has published his eleven poetry collections since Marginal Zones (1984), most recently The Swerve (2023) and The Gravity Wave (2019) which was a Poetry Society Recommendation and winner of the 2020 Farmgate Café National Poetry Award. In his essays, Intimate City (2021), he takes us wandering through the streets of Dublin, past and present, tracing old routes and discovering new ones. He has won many awards for his work including the O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry, the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Eamon Keane Award at Listowel Writers' Week and the Michael Hartnett Award. He has written plays for radio, a children's book and criticism. He teaches literary translation at Trinity College.

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This event is hosted by EUNIC, the EU National Institutes for Culture, with the kind support of the Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Ireland.