Video - Oana Avasilichioaei & Erín Moure Perform at Tree

Is the author of

Sheep’s Vigil by

a Fervent Person



published by

House of Anansi Press

Erín Moure is a Montreal poet and translator; her twelfth book, O Cadoiro (2007), was inspired by the medieval Galician-Portuguese lyric. Her translations of Chus Pato from Galician and (with Robert Majzels) Nicole Brossard from French are widely known – Chus Pato’s m-Talá just appeared in Moure’s English version in spring of 2009. Moure’s book of essays, My Beloved Wager, recently appeared from NeWest Press, and her latest work of poetry, O Resplandor, co-written with Elisa Sampedrín, will appear from Anansi in 2010.  

Moure will read with Montreal’s Oana Avasilichioaei from Expeditions of a Chimæra (BookThug, 2009), a collaborative book of poems that explores and provokes authorial and translational impossibilities.


Erín has given us two poems:

a poem from O Cadoiro:

[626] #663 Ayras Carpancho

I m going to Santiago to pray, perhaps I ll see my love.

I m going to burn candles, and with such heartache

there I ll wait to see my love.

In the sanctuary I ll burn candles and

I ll dance

if I see my love

In the sanctuary I ll pray before lit candles

Such heartache

dancing heartache

till I see my love.

an excerpt from “Airways” in Expeditions of a Chimæra

dear e, will you?

In these questions my complete biography. My face

issued from a country that does not exist.

Medieval artifacts of authority: the ports

we pass through. Where all is boundaries

except these words in which we cross with ease.

In such questions I am an artifact.

Do you like this tale of the tongue?

Do you brave?


Continued . . .