Viviana Fiorentino

Viviana Fiorentino is originally from Italy and lives in Belfast. Her poems appeared in anthologies (Dedalus Press, Salmon Poetry, Arlen House), magazines (i.e. The Stinging Fly) and on air for RTÉ 1. They were recorded for the Irish Poetry Reading Archive (UCD). She translated Irish poet Freda Laughton into Italian (Arcipelago Itaca Press, bilingual Ed.). In Italy, she published a novel and two poetry collections. She is one of the winners of the 2022 Irish Chair Of Poetry Student Prize. Viviana is Language Project Artist for Quotidian – Word On the Street and is supported by a SIAP grant founded by the ACNI. She is a board member of the Irish PEN and Le Ortique, an initiative to rediscover forgotten women artists.

Poem from Blackbird Anthology curated by Wendy Erskine & Denise Riley (Seamus Heaney Centre, 2022)

Translated from the Italian by Viviana Fiorentino

Arna aistriú ón Iodálach ag Colm Breathnach

Reproduced by kind permission of the author and publisher