Join Itō Hiromi and Jeffrey Angles on tour as they discuss Killing Kanoko / WIld Grass on the Riverbank. Itō Hiromi is one of the most important poets of contemporary Japan and is often credited with revolutionizing post-war Japanese poetry with her work focusing on sexuality, childbirth, and women’s bodies. Jeffrey Angles is a poet, American scholar of modern Japanese literature and an award-winning literary translator of modern and contemporary Japanese poetry and fiction into English.

Wednesday 19 February, 19:00-20:30: National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, chaired by Motoyuki Shibata, a Japanese translator of contemporary of American fiction and editor of the English-language literary journal Monkey Business. Tickets

Thursday 20 February, 11:00-13:00: National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall: Translating Cultures with Hiromi Itō, Jeffrey Angles, Motoyuki Shibata and Polly Barton (translator of Where The Wild Ladies Are). Tickets

Thursday 20 February, 20:00-21:30: Kommune, Sheffield: in conversation. Tickets

Friday 21 February, 18:30-19:30: Waterstones Cambridge in conversation with Dr Victoria Young, Kawashima Lecturer in Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. Tickets

Saturday 22 February, 9:00-18:00: British Library, in conversation with Naoko Nobutomo. Tickets

Programmed by Modern Culture in partnership with the Japan Foundation and Sheffield University. Supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the Japan Society and the National Centre for Writing. Part of the Japan-UK Season of Culture 2019-20.