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DABF24 Talk | Words as objects, words as hinges
28 November 2024, 6pm
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Join DABF Guest Curator Adrian Duncan and poet and fabulist Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe for a series of readings and a conversation about the ways single words can create narrative-direction, sense, shape and form within poetry.
Join DABF Guest Curator Adrian Duncan in Studio 6 for readings and a conversation about the recent work of poet and fabulist Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe. Taking a selection of poems from her critically acclaimed collection Auguries of a Minor God, Adrian and Nidhi will consider these poems as not just containing narrative and sense, but also shape and form. Identifying particular words from the poetry, the talk will look at how words can perform as objects or hinges within each poem’s flux of meanings. The talk will be followed by a short Q&A.
Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe's first poetry collection Auguries of a Minor God, was published with Faber & Faber in 2021. A Next Generation Artist with the Arts Council of Ireland, she serves on the Expert Advisory Committee to Culture Ireland. In 2023, she was appointed the Rooney Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, and guest editor of Poetry Ireland Review. She is the 2024 Literature Ireland artist-in-residence at Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and the Commissioned Writer in 2024 at Temple Bar Art Gallery + Studios, Dublin.
Adrian Duncan is an Irish artist, writer and an editor with PVA Books. His latest novel The Geometer Lobachevsky was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2023. His next novel, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth will be published in January 2025 with Tuskar Rock Press. His films have screened at IFFR, Karlovy Vary IFF, HotDocs, and IDFA, among others. His forthcoming film on Fascist-era architecture in Italy is called Latina, Latina. This was an Arts Council Reel-Art-funded project and is due in early 2025.
Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF) is a centre for contemporary artist books offering unique artist publications and titles from creative, small and independent publishers, both Irish and international. Each year, DABF presents an extended programme of events and a curated selection of books nominated by the Guest Curator. Adrian Duncan’s Fictions: The makings of other worlds considers different ways stories can be told; the images, spaces, objects, figures, feelings that emerge while doing so; and the sorts of truths they propose.
DABF24 is proudly sponsored by Henry J Lyons and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and RTÉ Supporting The Arts.
