Moira Egan will present the Rome launch of The Furies, her tenth poetry collection, at John Cabot University in the Trastevere district on Wednesday 24 June at 18.30.
The event, part of John Cabot University’s Summer Institute of Creative Writing and Literary Translation, will take place on the Secchia Terrace. Egan is a prize-winning poet and translator whose work has been published in prestigious journals and anthologies on four continents.
In The Furies, Egan offers fierce feminist reimaginings of familiar myths and narratives, from Arachne to Echo, from Medusa and Mary Magdalene to the female characters of The Odyssey, in verse that highlights the value of solidarity and collective strength among women.
With dazzling erudition and mischievous ingenuity, she deploys exuberant wordplay and traditional poetic forms to subvert the patriarchal canon.
The California Review of Books writes: “One of the best living formalist poets writing in English, Moira Egan composes poems that are elegant, intelligent, pitch-perfect and not infrequently more than a little angry.”
