Delighted to be taking part in a panel discussion with Cat Moir, Chris Edwards and Luke Fisher on the poetry, philosophy, and reception of the work of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) in Sydney next week on Monday Monday, 28th November, 5.30 p.m. Find out more here
Rilke is one of the most widely read German poets both in the Germanspeaking world and internationally. Writing in the moment of high modernism, his work speaks of a particular time and place and yet continues to resonate in a variety of ways today. This panel discussion brings together scholars and poets with diverse connections to Rilke in order to think through his impact and his
afterlife.
Chris Edwards is a contemporary Australian poet, whose latest book, O Sonata, performs a series of ‘renditions’ of Rilke’s poetry into English.
Luke Fischer is a poet and a philosopher, whose most recent book, The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems (2015) explores Rilke’s work through a philosophical lens.
Karen Leeder is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Oxford. She is an internationally renowned expert on German and comparative poetry, and has written extensively on
Rilke’s work.
Cat Moir teaches German in Sydney. She is wirting a book on Ernst Bloch and her work focuses in particular on how thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory responded to the intellectual and historical challenges of the twentieth century, and interrogates the relevance of their thinking for us today.
