Instituto Cervantes present this poetry reading in celebration of the Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill poetry exchange, awarded to Galician poet Masha Álvarez. This fellowship allows her to work on her poetry throughout September at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland.

The recital will feature readings of poems by both Masha Álvarez and Irish poet Karl Parkinson, along with translations of some of their works.

The Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill-Literary Residency 1863 (A Coruña) poetry exchange aims to foster and disseminate creative writing under conditions of excellence. The exchange is complemented by public recitals and the publication of a poetry collection featuring translations of the selected poets' work in Spanish and Galician.

María Álvarez Martínez (Masha), Vigo, 1983, holds a degree in English Philology, she works as an English teacher in secondary education. She resided for two years in the United States, where she worked in language immersion schools for the Sioux Falls School District in South Dakota—an experience that undoubtedly inspired her poetry collection, winner of the 15th Victoriano Taibo Poetry Prize (2023). She combines her teaching career with a musical one in the group Os Residuos Atractivas. Like Yves Berger or John Dunbar, Masha also feels the urge to go see the frontier before it disappears.

Karl Parkinson is a writer from inner-city Dublin. The Blocks his début novel was published to critical acclaim in 2016 by New Binary Press, and was published in Italian translation by Battaglia Edizioni in October 2022. In 2013 Wurmpress published his début poetry collection, Litany of the City and Other Poems, and his second poetry collection, Butterflies of a Bad Summer, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2016, and his third collection of poetry Sacred Symphony, was published in 2020 by Culture Matters. His début collection of short stories The Grind was published in 2022 from Front Line Press. His work has been published widely in anthologies and journals. In 2024 he was the recipient of a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in poetry award.

In partnership with Poetry Ireland, Literature Ireland and Xunta de Galicia.