Cactus body, a
bilingual chapbook of poems by Nicaraguan poet Blanca Castellón (centre), with
translations by Roger Hickin, was launched recently at the 10th International Poetry Festival in Granada, Nicaragua, with
the participation of New Zealand poet Michael Harlow & Castellón’s fellow
Nicaraguan author Gioconda Belli.
Cactus body was published in New Zealand by Cold Hub Press (coldhubpress.co.nz)
which also recently published So we lost
paradise, a bilingual selected poems of Chilean poet Juan Cameron, who was at the festival as well.
Michael Harlow (whose selected poems, Sweeping the courtyard is due
out next month from Cold Hub) was this year’s New Zealand poet at the festival,
which is one the major cultural events of Latin America.
Around 406 million
people speak Spanish as a first language, and while many non-Hispanic poets are
funded by their respective arts councils to travel to Granada, New Zealand
writers fortunate enough to be invited to this extraordinary event are left to
pay their own way.
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