On Tuesday, September 2, 2025, at 7:00pm (BST) poet Lorna Goodison will be in conversation with poet and architect Fawzia Muradali Kane at the London Review Bookshop (14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL, United Kingdom). They will speak about Goodison’s translation of Dante’s Inferno (Carcanet, 2025).
Leading Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison will be in London to present her latest work, Dante’s Inferno (Carcanet). As much a transformation as a translation, Goodison’s reworking casts the great Jamaican folklorist and poet Louise ‘Miss Lou’ Bennett-Coverley as Virgil, and moves the action to the Caribbean, where we encounter other poets, including Goodison’s friend Derek Walcott, local politicians, reggae pioneers and other figures from the island’s past, at the same time endowing Jamaican patois with a startling beauty and power.
For more information and tickets, visit https://www.lrb.co.uk/events and https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lorna-goodison-fawzia-muradali-kane-dantes-inferno-tickets-1414919525389
Also see https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800174665/dantes-inferno/
On Tuesday, September 2, 2025, at 7:00pm (BST) poet Lorna Goodison will be in conversation with poet and architect Fawzia Muradali Kane at the London Review Bookshop (14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL, United Kingdom). They will speak about Goodison’s translation of Dante’s Inferno (Carcanet, 2025). Leading Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison will be in London