Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 11:30

Ian Macmillan hosted Durs Grünbein, Norma Gomoriner, Ira Lightman and Karen Leeder for a special edition of BBC Radio 3 The Verb to discuss German poetry over the thirty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and translation. How is a writer haunted by history? How does the translator haunt a poem? What does Rilke sound like through the prism of social media? Listen now!