Rachel McNicholl, translator and poet from the west coast of Ireland, is a fellow at Villa Concordia 2024/25, where new poems were written. Her colleague Hans-Christian Oeser, who was awarded the Villa Concordia Fellowship at the same time, and Eva Bourke have translated them into German for the first time. The author Rachel McNicholl will be taking part in World Poetry Day with a reading from it in Berlin, which will be celebrated as a festival for poetry on 21 March at the Haus für Poesie:

haus-fuer-poesie.org/events

Under the patronage of the German Commission for UNESCO, this is a joint event of the Haus für Poesie and the German Commission for UNESCO, the Akademie Schloss Solitude, the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme, the Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf, the Czech Literary Centre and Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia Bamberg.