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Ulrike Almut Sandig in Oxford
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!
Agenda at New College: European Poetry of the Great War
Poetry Magazine Agenda launches special issue Requiem: The Great War in Oxford
Translation Duel Cheltenham Literary Festival
Karen Leeder umpired a fascinating Translation Duel at this year's Chlentenham Literary Festival. Two expert translators Shaun Whiteside and Sally Ann Spender go head to head transalting new work by German author Julia Franck. Disocvering the nitty-gritty of translation
'Torso of Polyphemus'
Knowledge Exchange Fellow Karen Leeder reads and discusses her translation of the poem by Durs Grünbein, as part of a series of events on poetry and translation at the Southbank Centre.
She explores the poem's relationship to Rilke, the classical past and the challenges of translating German poetry into English.
Here you can listen to the 9 minute podcast:
Karen Leeder discusses gender, translation and Austrian poetry
A roundtable on gender and Austrian poetry at the School of Advanced Study, London with Allyson Fidder, Geoffrey C. Howes, Karen Leeder, Mike Mitchell, Marcela Pozarkova
See the podcast
A chance to talk about translating Evelyn Schlag