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Karen Leeder appears on the Verb
Saturday, November 16, 2019 - 19:15
Karen Leeder appears on BBC Radio 3 The Verb with Ian Macmillan, Durs Grünbein, Nora Gomringer, and Ira Lightman discussing German Poestry Thirty years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Listen here
Witness History: 'I was there the night the wall came down'
Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 19:30
The National Archives Bessant Drive Richmond TW9 4DU
Special event in the #ColdWarSeason
Translating Poetries: A Symposium for Translation Practitioners
Thursday, September 12, 2019 - 09:00 to Friday, September 13, 2019 - 19:30
SOAS, University of London Djam Lecture Theatre Russell Square: College Buildings London WC1H 0XG
Translating Poetries: A Symposium for Translation Practitioners will gather 50 leading translation practitioners from around the world to discuss the practice of translating poetry. This two-day event will be hosted by the Poetry Translation Centre and SOAS University of London with support from Commonwealth Writers, Literature Across Frontiers and the National Centre for Writing.
The aims of the symposium are:
Book at Lunchtime: Veteran Poetics
Wednesday, May 29, 2019 - 12:30
TORCH Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford
The Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature Lecture Series - Trinity Term 2019
Tuesday, May 7, 2019 - 17:30
St Anne's College, oxford
Poet in the Archives - Michael Hamburger
Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 19:30
British Library
Timothy Corsellis Prize 2018
Thursday, October 11, 2018 - 18:30
The Poetry Society is delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 Timothy Corsellis Prize for poems and essays responding to poetry of the Second World War.
Guerrilla Poetry at the Edinburgh festival
Sunday, August 19, 2018 - 18:30
The Writers' Retreat Book Festival Edinburgh
GUERRILLA POETRY
Oxford Translation Day 8-9 June 2018
Friday, June 8, 2018 - 16:15
St Anne's College, Seminar Room 1
Delighted to be asked back again this year to perform with the wonderful Ulrike Almut Sandig at this year's Oxford Translation Day. See the programme for the two days below or here
Come along to the launch event for Ulrike Almut Sandig, Thick of it (Seagull Books, 2018).
Thick of it at Dylan Thomas Birthplace, Swansea
Thursday, May 31, 2018 - 18:30
Dylan Thomas Birthplace 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea, SA2 0RA
Ulrike Almut Sandig, Thick of it (2018) Book Launch and Reading. Very excited to be performing at Dylan Thomas Birthplace
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I am a field full of rapeseed, give cover to deer and shine like thirteen oil-paintings laid one on top of the other
Friday, January 10, 2020 - 23:15
‘Multilingual Landscapes: LANDSCHAFT in the UK’
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - 14:45
German Poetry since 1989
Saturday, January 4, 2020 - 14:15
Riveting Germans / Films available
Saturday, December 28, 2019 - 10:45
No Man's Land 2019
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 11:45
BBC Radio 3 The Verb on haunting and everything you wanted to know about German Poetry after the fall of the wall
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 11:30
Thick of it shortlisted for the Schlegel-Tieck translation prize 2019
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 - 17:30
Advance notice: Riveting Germans!
Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - 19:00
Review of Thick of it
Friday, October 18, 2019 - 12:00
The Timothy Corsellis Prize 2019
Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 15:00
