Virtual Poetry Reading: Poetry of Displacement with Fióna Bolger, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, and Divya Victor

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“By bringing together three poets with overlapping connections to one another through the places they have called home over the course of their lives we seek to explore the ideas of home, migration, citizenship, belonging as well as borders, unhoming and disowning. While these poets share places, both Fióna and Divya have lived in Tamil Nadu, both Chandrika and Fióna live in Dublin, and both Divya and Chandrika were born in India, their writing emerges from displacement and cannot be easily situated in a national poetic tradition.”

Fióna Bolger

Fióna Bolger is author of a compound of words. She lives between Ireland and India. Her work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Southword, The Brown Critique, The Poetry Bus, The Chattahoochee Review, and others. She is a co-ordinator of Dublin Writers’ Forum and a member of the creative team of Outlandish Theatre Platform. She is currently working towards a PhD at Dublin City University entitled ‘Searching for Poems in the Cracks Between Borders’. Poems can be corralled into lists by country, by language, by form. Fióna Bolger is interested in those that fall between categories, challenge the existence of formal, linguistic, cultural, or geographic boundaries, borders.

Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan

Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan (She/Her) is a Dublin-based arts manager, writer, and performer from India. Her work has been published in Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets from Dedalus Press, The Ireland Chair of Poetry Hold Open the Door anthology by UCD Press, the Green Carnations: 25 Young LGBTQ+ Poets from Ireland anthology by Book Hub Publishing, Banshee, Honest Ulsterman, Impossible Archetype, and Poetry Ireland Review. In 2020 Chandrika won 3rd place in the Fingal Poetry Prize. Chandrika is editor of Poetry Ireland’s Trumpet issue 9, book reviewer for Children’s Books Ireland’s Inis magazine, and one of Science Gallery Dublin’s current Rapid Residency Artists. In 2021 Chandrika joined the Board of the Irish Writers Centre.

Divya Victor

Divya Victor is the author of Curb; Kith, a book of verse, prose memoir, lyric essay, and visual objects; Scheingleichheit: Drei Essays; Natural Subjects (Winner of the Bob Kaufman Award); Unsub, Things To Do With Your Mouth. Her work has appeared in BOMB, the New Museum’s The Animated Reader, Crux: Journal of Conceptual Writing, The Best American Experimental Writing, POETRY, and others. She has been translated into French, German, Spanish, and Czech, been a Mark Diamond Research Fellow at the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Riverrun Fellow at the Archive for New Poetry at University of California San Diego, and a Writer in Residence at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibit.