Apologies for cross-postings:
Colleagues might be interested in two events taking place as part of Poetry
International Festival this Autumn at the South Bank Centre.
In the year marking the fiftieth anniversary of Brecht’s death, seven leading
German and English poets have been invited to respond to the great German
writer.
On Friday 27th October at 7.45 pm in the Purcell Room
David Constantine, Andy Croft, Ulrike Draesner, Lavinia Greenlaw,
Adrian Mitchell, Albert Ostermaier & Bert Papenfuss
will read specially commissioned new ‘translations’ of Brecht. These are
translations in the broadest sense: from new versions of classic poems, to
original responses to his life and work, and reinterpretations of his personal,
poetic and political gestures for our own times.
This will be preceded, at 5.45 pm in the Purcell Room, by a discussion
on ‘Brecht’s Poetic Legacy’ with the poets and chaired by Karen Leeder
See the website below - just click on the events for full details.
http://www.rfh.org.uk/poetryinternational/events.html
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Dr K.J. Leeder
Reader in German
Fellow and Tutor in German,
New College, Oxford
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