Kathleen McCracken - Poetry Launch

o Alibis Bookstore is very pleased to invite you to celebrate the launch of Kathleen McCracken's latest poetry collection, on Thursday 5th March at 6:30PM. Kathleen will be discussing the bilingual English-Brazilian Portuguese edition of DOUBLE SELF-PORTRAIT WITH MIRROR: NEW & SELECTED POEMS 1978-2014, which has a preface by Medbh McGuckian.

Double Self Portrait with Mirror: New & Selected Poems (1978-2014) is a milestone publication from Canadian poet Kathleen McCracken. Published by Brazil’s innovative Editora Ex Machina press, this bilingual edition brings together a group of startlingly original new poems with selections from her seven previously published collections.

Translated by José Roberto O’Shea, organized by Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos and including a preface written by Medbh McGuckian, this initial volume in Ex Machina’s series of English-Brazilian Portuguese poetry books introduces McCracken’s work to Brazilian readers for the first time. For those familiar with her poetry, it offers a compilation that is testimony to the consistency and the diversity of her vision. As McGuckian writes in her preface, ‘Double Self Portrait with Mirror showcases the artist in her fruitful prime. A bilingual edition of integrity and elegance, it will encourage a wider appreciation of her ongoing work as a Canadian poet of international repute, at the same moment as it marks the emergence of an important new voice in Brazil’s vibrant catalogue of contemporary literature in translation.'