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Transgressions: Karen Leeder to talk Poetry and Translation with Stephen Romer and Jamie McKendrick for Oxford Translation Day

Saturday, June 11, 2016 - 11:30
St Anne's College, Seminar Room 9
Oxford Translation Day

Very pleased to be taking part in  a wonderful rosta of events for Oxford Translation Day 2016 on 11 June 2016, at St Anne's College with Stephen Romer and Jamie McKendrick

Book your tickets here

PEN Translation Pitch

Saturday, June 4, 2016 - 14:30

Gearing up for the PEN Translation Pitch at the Free Word Centre on Thursday 9th June alongside some terrific translators and works. Come and support!

Translation Pitch: New Literary Voices with PEN Presents

Six enthralling books by contemporary European writers which have not yet been translated into English will be pitched live

Karen Leeder with Poet in the City at Lutonia! Spoken Word Festival

Sunday, March 20, 2016 - 17:30 to 18:30
The Hat Factory, 65 - 67 Bute Street, Luton LU1 2EY. Here is a link showing the route: https://goo.gl/maps/cQNnJQ4SWps

Karen Leeder in conversation about Shakespeare's sonnets with Don Paterson and Mimi Khalvati at Lutonia! on Sunday 20th March 2016: 17.30pm

http://www.lutonculture.com/luton-library-theatre/whats-on/2016/03/20/shakespeares-sonnets/1805/

 

Poetic Battlefields: The First World War in Poetry

Thursday, November 5, 2015 - 17:30

In Catastrophe/Forms four speakers enact over 30 poems (1911-1919) from 14 different countries, depicting the turn from preliminary war fever to the shock at the effects of industrialised mass war. The multimedia performance is directed by Johann Reißer and spoken by Iwona Mickiewicz, Carolin Bohn, Julia Trompeter, and Xaver Römer.

The duo-performance Kling Sichten, arranged and realised by Trompeter and Römer, illuminates poems by the German poet Thomas Kling (1957-2005) that concern the aftermath and the remembrance of WWI.

Michael Krüger at Reading Poetry Festival

Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 15:45
Lecture Theatre, Building 22, London Road Campus, University of Reading
Michael Krüger

Michael Krüger, the award-winning German poet, will read from and talk about his latest collection to be translated into English, Last Day of the Year with its themes of ageing, late work, and loss. The poet Stanley Moss says about Michael: 'He gives us a world exploding with memories, a flood, an Ark.'

 

Günter Grass: A Tribute

Saturday, October 10, 2015 - 12:15
The Inkpot, Imperial Square, Cheltenham

The 1959 publication of The Tin Drum was a landmark moment in the development of European magical realism and established Grass as one of Germany’s most revered yet controversial novelists. In the year of his death, friend and author Salman Rushdie, writer Ulrike Draesner and academic Karen Leeder pay tribute to the Nobel Prize winner. Chaired by Anne McElvoy.

Sat 10 Oct 2015 12:15pm - 1:15pm

The Inkpot, Imperial Square

£8

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Review of Thick of it

Saturday, September 22, 2018 - 19:45
Delighted that Asymptote has included this wonderful write up in its August edition

Review of Thick of it

Saturday, September 8, 2018 - 12:15
Wonderful to see poetry in the mix with all the novels

Translation Award

Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - 12:00
Karen Leeder awarded The John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize 2017
Durs Grunbein

Grimm arrives!

Friday, August 17, 2018 - 12:30
Ulrike Almut Sandig launches Grimm at Lighthouse Books
Grimm @Hurst Street Press, Ulrike Almut Sandig, Karen leeder

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