VERONA RECAPTURED IN VERSE

a presentation of Paola G. Sepúlveda’s book of poems

Vestigios de Postumia.

In collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in Australia

Wednesday 23 September, 6.30pm

Museo Italiano, Co.As.It., 199 Faraday St, Carlton

Light refreshments served

Free event – RSVP: [email protected]

Program:

Opening remarks by Mr César Espada Sánchez, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Spain in Australia;

A conversation between the author and Dr Lilit Thwaites, Literary Translator (Spanish-English) and Honorary Research Associate at La Trobe University

Reading of a selection of poems in Spanish, English and Italian by Dr Gregoria Manzin, Cassamarca Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Paola González Sepúlveda, born in Málaga in 1985, is a philologist and AECID lecturer in Spanish language and literature at the University of Melbourne. In 2014 she was awarded a grant by the government of Castilla la Mancha (Spain) to participate in the ‘Young Creators – Poetry’ Residence at the Castle of San Servando in Toledo. A number of teaching positions and grants by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs have taken her to many places, including Bulgaria, Hungary, Portugal, Costa Rica, Poland and Italy... Italy is the location for her first book of poems, Vestigios de Postumia, and is a tribute to the city of Verona and to the passing of time. Through the poet’s vivid and nostalgic evocation, the reader walks along the ancient Via Postumia, the Adige River, and the streets, palaces and bridges of Verona, and relives the Italy of Dante and Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”.