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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

Proms Extra on Beethoven and the German Poetry that inspired him

Friday, July 24, 2015 - 17:45
Royal College of Music

17:45 Friday 24 Jul 2015 Royal College of Music

German culture experts Professor Karen Leeder and Professor Robert Vilain tlak with Anne McElvoy on the great German Romantic poetry that inspired Beethoven throughout his life, from Schiller’s 'Ode to Joy' to Goethe’s 'Egmont' and Treitschke’s 'Fidelio'.

Günter Grass

Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 17:30
Taylor Institute, Oxford

Come and find about about Nobel Prize Winner Günter Grass - his novels, his etchings and his poetry...

With Ray Ockenden, Alexandra Vinall and Karen Leeder, Tyalor Institute, 17.30pm 11 June 2015

Supported by Oxford University German Society

And hear Karen Leeder, Eugen Ruge, Lawrence Norfolk and Oliver Kamm  with Anne McElvoy on the Tin Drum on Free Thinking here

Don't Mind the Gap – An Evening of British and German Literature

Saturday, May 16, 2015 - 19:30
King's Place, 90 York Way London N1 9AG

A vibrant mixture of poetry and prose: The German Academy for Language and Literature, visiting London this year, is delighted to invite you to an evening with some of the best poets and novelists from the UK and from Germany, each a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature or of the German Academy.

Ulrike Almut Sandig in Oxford

Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - 17:30
Lecture Theatre (2nd Floor), Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG,

As part of her UK tour German poet, short story writer and performer Ulrike Almut Sandig

will appear in Oxford on Tuesday 3 March (7th week), 5.30pm,  Lecture Theatre (2nd Floor), Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG,

This will be a bilingual performance of poetry and prose, including specially commissioned new work and translations, sound art, film and a discussion of her new volume Buch gegen das Verschwinden (2015), followed by a reception. All welcome!

Poetry Magazine Agenda launches special issue Requiem: The Great War in Oxford

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 17:30
New College Ante-Chapel followed by drinks in Lecture Room 6
Cover of Agenda 48, Nos. 3-4, November 2014

Poetry magazine Agenda launches its special double issue Requiem: The Great War in New College Ante-Chapel.

Readings 5.30pm followed by drinks in Lecture room 6. All welcome.

Read more about the issue here and about the link between Agenda and New College here

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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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