The Luck of the Editor | A Seminar with Marco Sonzogni and Matthew Hollis
Cyril Byrne, Irish Times
Join us as Marco Sonzogni and Matthew Hollis explore Seamus Heaney’s celebrated achievements in literary translation
Drawing on their close collaboration in the compilation and editing of The Translations of Seamus Heaney (2022), Marco Sonzogni and Matthew Hollis will discuss their work in curating this landmark volume which stands as a testament to Seamus Heaney’s long investment and celebrated achievements in literary translation. Spanning languages, centuries and contexts, Heaney’s translation practice will be explored in this seminar through close attention to a selection of texts.
This seminar is offered as part of 'First Principles: Editing Seamus Heaney', a collaboration between the School of English at Trinity College Dublin and the National Library of Ireland’s Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition.
Details and tickets for the events on Saturday 7th November are available here
Marco Sonzogni is the editor of The Translations of Seamus Heaney (2022). He is Professor of Translation Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a widely published and award-winning literary translator, scholar, and editor.
Matthew Hollis is a poet, critic and biographer, and co-editor, with Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue, of The Poems of Seamus Heaney (2025). A former poetry editor at Faber, he commissioned The Translations of Seamus Heaney. He is Professor of Poetry and Editing Studies at Manchester Writing School, Manchester Metropolitan University.
