Earl Rögnvald
Picture: Sigurd Towrie

Translation: Searching for the Third Voice

Talk and workshop by Ian Crockatt, winner of the 2013 Society of Authors Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translation

OAP Hall, Church Street, Huntly • Wednesday 16 April 2014 • 7.30pm

Admission free — donations welcome • Refreshments

Ian Crockatt is a poet and poetry translator. His most recent books are the poetry collection Blizzards of the Inner Eye (Peterloo Press, 2003); Skald: Viking Poems (Koo Press 2009, reprinted 2011), a series of original poems based on a Viking poetic form; and, in translation, Pure Contradiction, selected poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (Arc Publications). This was awarded the Society of Authors' 2013 Schlegel-Tieck prize for translation.

He has twice been awarded Scottish Arts Council grants for writers, and has won prizes in a number of national poetry competitions.

He has just completed a PhD, centred on the translation of Old Norse skaldic poetry, with particular focus on the work of Rögnvald Kali Kolsson, Earl of Orkney from 1135–1158. Ian's next book, to be published by Arc Publications in 2014, will be translations of Rögnvald's poems.