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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

'Torso of Polyphemus'

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 15:30
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:

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Raoul Schrott coming to UK

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - 20:00
Raoul Schrott will launch his new volume The Sex of the Angel in London in October

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