Reading Naka Taro in Japanese and English (8 March)

On Friday 8 March Isobar Press will be hosting a bilingual talk and reading, featuring the major contemporary poet Nomura Kiwao, who will speak about his predecessor, the modernist poet Naka Taro, and Andrew Houwen, co-translator of Naka’sMusic: Selected Poems (Isobar Press, 2018).

Nomura-san will speak about the influence Naka has had on the contemporary Japanese poetry world, before giving a reading of some of his poems in Japanese; Andrew Houwen will read English translations of Naka’s work and discuss how he and co-translator Chikako Nihei approached the challenge of rendering Naka's intense musicality into another language.

The event will be held in Nomura-san’s poetry café in the El Sur Foundation near Shin Daita on the Inokashira Line – a delightful space, with beautiful furniture and walls lined with poetry-bearing bookshelves!

TITLE: Reading Naka Taro in Japanese and English
SPEAKERS: Nomura Kiwao and Andrew Houwen
TIME: 19:00–21:00
CHARGE: ¥1,000
PLACE: El Sur Foundation, Hanegi 1-5-10, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 156-0042

エルスール財団 東京都世田谷区羽根木1丁目5番10号
MAP: http://www.elsurfoundation.com/f_schedule.html

Tea, coffee and other drinks are available at the bar.