A move to a new place is, in many ways, like writing a poem. 🔱

Both involve a return to ground-zero and require bravery to investigate the unknown (or the blank page).

Vitor’s talk will illustrate the above analogy, with the process of making Harry Kernoff’s Guest, a book about the Irish-Jewish painter‘s errands between London and Dublin. He’ll compare those journeys with his own between Portugal and Ireland (and some other parts of the continent). Beyond geographical travels, the talk also explores Kernoff’s appetite for discovering the small and mundane in everyday life. Whilst Vitor’s book is about the Emerald Isle, inspired by a man in love with Dublin,

he’ll also explore how embracing Irishness has strongly influenced his own work and, to some extent, his way of life.

Harry Kernoff’s Guest was written during a period of unemployment. At that time, Vitor had to move from room to room eight times in eight months (true story!). This experience informs the talk with a sense and theme of displacement. The Art of Departures should be of interest to poetry enthusiasts, painting oddities, ex-pats and the sorts of adventurous souls who allow themselves to be devotees of the fair city of Dublin.

Vitor Vicente is a Portuguese author who has lived abroad since 2006, between Spain, Poland and Hungary, and currently lives in Bray, Ireland. He’s the author of 12 published books. Travel runs through all of them. His latest title is the poetry collection Harry Kernoff’s Guest, which also shares reproductions of the paintings that inspired the writing. 

The event will be hosted on Zoom and bookers will be sent the link ahead of the event.

At the time of writing (12 Sept) we were having technical difficulties with connecting booking and Zoom. We will resolve this and issue a booking link shortly.

Here’s a link to purchase Vitor’s book. Though this is a Portuguese site, it exports internationally.

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