Poets' Corner is WestWords' monthly encounter with celebrated Australian poets, curated by David Ades.

Each month a poet is invited to read and talk about their poetry on a theme of the poet's choice.

Juan Garrido-Salgado immigrated to Australia from Chile in 1990, fleeing the regime that burned his poetry and imprisoned and tortured him for his political activism. He has published eight books of poetry and his work has been widely translated. He has also translated works by a number of leading Australian & Aboriginal poets into Spanish, including five Aboriginal poets for the anthology Espejo de Tierra/ Earth Mirror (2008).

With Steve Brock and Sergio Holas, Garrido-Salgado also translated into English the Trilingual Mapuche Poetry Anthology. The book When I was Clandestine was part of a poetical tour at the Granada International Poetry Festival in Nicaragua, Mexico and Cuba (La Habana City) in 2019.

Hope Blossoming in Their Ink was published by Puncher & Wattman in 2020.

You can purchase Juan Garrido-Salgado's books here:

Hope Blossoming in Their Ink

https://puncherandwattmann.com/authors/Juan-Garrido-Salgado/

Cuando Fui Clandestino/When I was Clandestine

https://rochford-pressbookshop.square.site/product/cuando-fui-clandestino-when-i-was-clandestine-by-juan-garrido-salgado/1

The chapbook - Dialogue with Samuel Lafferte in Australia 2016 can be ordered by email: [email protected]

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