Second Tongue

by Yolanda Castaïo, Keith Payne

Overview

"Yolanda Castaño writes love poems which are not tearful. Her love belongs to mysterious strangers from different continents and languages. She is never pedantic. She loves skipping [...] between lines of her poems, between images and metaphors, between being frank and being mischievous. It's about singing all the way to Land's End, in good and bad weather.' Yolanda Castaño's poems are like champagne ... Read her poems and you'll be jumping too." --Adam Zagajewski

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848616578
Publisher:	Shearsman Books
Publication date:	01/10/2020
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.21(d)

About the Author

Poet, essayist, editor and curator, Yolanda Castaño is director of the International Writer's residence, Residencia Literaria 1863, in A Coruña, Galicia. She has published seven poetry collections in Galician and Spanish and her poems have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Winner of the National Critics Award, the Espiral Maior Poetry Award, the Fundación Novacaixagalicia Prize, the Ojo Crítico (best poetry book by a young author in Spain) and the Author of the Year by the Galician Booksellers' Association. She has been awarded International fellowships including the IWTCR in Rhodes, Villa Waldberta (Munich), the HIP-Beijing (China) and Hawthornden Castle.

Keith Payne was the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award winner for 2015-2016. Recent collections include Broken Hill (Lapwing Publications, Belfast, 2015); Six Galician Poets (Arc Publications, 2016), Diary of Crosses Green (from the Galician of Martín Veiga, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2018), and The Desert from the Galician of María do Cebreiro (Shearsman Books, 2019). He is director of the La Malinche Readings Ireland/Galicia and the PoemaRia Poetry festival in Vigo.