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Border Crossings

Sunday, March 15, 2026 - 14:30

Byre Theatre St Andrew's and online

Revoicing Classical Poetry

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 - 14:00

Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles, Oxford

Dance the Orange! Poets in Dialogue with Rilke

Thursday, February 12, 2026 - 19:00

Goethe-Institut London Library 50 Exhibition Road London SW7 2PH

Wolf Biermann -The German Bob Dylan

Sunday, December 28, 2025 - 19:00

BBC Radio 3 and online

Delighted to join various speakers for: Wolf Biermann - the German Bob Dylan

Karen Leeder with Nick Makoha and Miles Leeson on Start the Week

Monday, December 22, 2025 - 09:00

Online BBC Radio 4

Poetry - Reading, writing, editing and translating

Association of German Studies in Oxford German in the World

Monday, September 1, 2025 - 13:00 to Wednesday, September 3, 2025 - 13:00

St John's College, Oxford and the Taylor Institute, St Giles Oxford

Delighted to be hosting the Association of German Studies in Oxford 1-3 September 2025. The theme is 'German in the World' and we are preparing a huge and wonderfully diverse programme of papers and events. More details coming soon.

Taking part in Bristol Translates Summer School 2025

Monday, July 7, 2025 - 09:00 to Friday, July 11, 2025 - 17:00

Delighted to be part of Bristol Translates 2025 doing a seminar on poetry translation. Look froward to meeting everyone. See the full programme here and sign up.

From Page to Screen Reading in Cambridge

Friday, May 30, 2025 - 17:45

Robert Gardner Room, Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Poetry from Page to Screen. Excited to be reading in my old haunting ground in Cambridge with MacGillivray

Poetry as you've never seen and heard it before.

Robert Gardner Room, Emmanuel College May 30th 5.45.

Free! Register and details here

Experiential Translation in Venice

Monday, April 7, 2025 - 10:00 to 17:00

CREA Cantieri del Contemporane gallery in Venice

Robert Seethaler in conversation with Karen Leeder

Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 14:00

Bodleian Convocation House

Embassy Event: 80 Years On: From Ruins to Reconciliation – Dresden’s Journey of Renewal

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 19:00

German Embassy London

It was an honour and a privilege to be part of this extraordinary event at the German Embassy in London this February to mark 80 years since the Allied bombardment of Dresden. Thanks to his Excellency Ambassador Miguel Berger for the invitation and to Edmund de Waal, Durs Grünbein, and the Dean of Windsor and the Dresden Trust for their part is making it so moving and memorable,