'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:

from the Modern Poetry in Translation website: http://www.mptmagazine.com/poem/torso-of-polyphemus-694/.