Poetry and Translation with Erín Moure

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  Erín Moure

  Erín Moure

  Erín Moure is a poet and translator of poetry who has published 18 books of poetry, a coauthored book of poetry, a volume of essays, a book of articles on translation, a poetics, and two memoirs; she has translated or co-translated 22 books of poetry and 5 of biopoetics/non-fiction from French, Spanish, Galician, Portuguese and Ukrainian, by poets such as Nicole Brossard (with Robert Majzels), Andrés Ajens, Louise Dupré, Rosalía de Castro, Chus Pato, Uxío Novoneyra, Lupe Gómez (alone and with Rebeca Lema Martínez), Fernando Pessoa and Yuri Izdryk (with Roman Ivashkiv). Four of her own books have appeared in translation, one each in German and Galician, and two in French.

  Her work has received, among others, the Governor General’s Award (twice, once for translation), Pat Lowther Memorial Award, A.M. Klein Prize twice, and has been a three-time finalist for the Griffin Prize (twice for translation) and three-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award (Poetry), for Camouflage by Lupe Gómez (Circumference Books 2019) for Paraguayan Sea by Wilson Bueno (Nightboat 2017) and White Piano by Nicole Brossard (with Robert Majzels, Coach House, 2011). Her own latest is The Elements (Anansi, 2019), which she calls “a book of Dad.” A 40-year retrospective of her poetry, Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure (Wesleyan, edited by Shannon Maguire) appeared in 2017, and her next book of poetry, Theophylline, will appear in 2023 from House of Anansi, Toronto.