Saturday October 29th 2011

Jonathan reads from his translations of  Pavese, Montale and Velarde including his translations of  Ramón López Velarde, ‘Mexico’s National Poet’ which Markings Publications is launching in its latest Pocket Edition

Jonathan Falla, is as an award-winning dramatist and novelist; he writes plays, non-fiction, poetry and books of translation,  translating from French, Italian and Spanish and working particularly on Renaissance texts for the music group Fires of Love. He was a founder of the Cambridge Poetry Society and helped organize the first Cambridge Poetry Festival and  has written three highly regarded  novels, Glenfarron (Pub: Two Ravens) Poor Mercy (pub: Polygon) and Blue Poppies (Pub: 11.9).