William M. Roth Lecture 2018: “To Raucous for a Chorus” by Erica Van Horn

Recorded April 26, 2018. The Joan Roth and William M. Roth Lecture
Series was established in 2017 to honour the contributions made
over many years by Joan and William M. Roth to the arts and culture
in Ireland. This year’s lecture/reading reflects the Roth’s
particular interest in literature, poetry and the book arts. From
William Roth’s bibliography of English and American first editions
of W.B. Yeats’s work, published in 1939, through to his
establishment of the Colt Press, in the 1950s, the Roths have long
been involved in promoting poetry and literature more generally in
Ireland and further afield. It is particularly fitting that this
year’s Roth lecture will be given by the US American poet, artist,
editor, writer and printmaker Erica Van Horn. Like the Roths, she
has spent many years living and working in Ireland where she has
enjoyed a long friendship with the Roth family. Erica was born in
New Hampshire in 1954. The Book Remembers Everything: The Work of
Erica Van Horn, was shown at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library at Yale in 2010, where there is an archive of her books and
papers. Among her most recent publications is Living Locally, with
a foreword by Susan Howe, published by Uniformbooks in 2011/14.
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