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Front RowKyoto, Nathaniel Rateliff, Midsummer Day poetryThe UN climate conference in Kyoto in 1997 is the setting for a new play at the RSC. Its writers Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson talk about the dramatic potential they saw in that moment and in the decade leading up to it. Nathaniel Rateliff is a singer songwriter based in Denver, Colorado whose style of Americana and collaboration with the Nightsweats has garnered a steady following of fans due to his talent in storytelling and performance. He joins us to play live.We celebrate Midsummer’s Day with poems that explore this heady midpoint in th...2024-06-2442 min
The Poetry of ScienceEpisode 246: Secrets Beneath the IceThis episode explores new research, which has found that signs of life could be detectable in single ice grains that are emitted from extraterrestrial moons.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Ten Moons’ by Sasha Dugdale here.
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2024-04-0107 min
Frank Skinner's Poetry PodcastSasha DugdaleFrank stands in awe as Sasha Dugdale sends a frighteningly honest Valentine’s message. The collection referenced is ‘Joy’ by Sasha Dugdale. The poems referenced are ‘Joy’ and ‘Valentine’s’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices2024-02-1433 minFrank Skinner's Poetry PodcastSasha DugdaleFrank stands in awe as Sasha Dugdale sends a frighteningly honest Valentine’s message. The collection referenced is ‘Joy’ by Sasha Dugdale. The poems referenced are ‘Joy’ and ‘Valentine’s’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices2024-02-1438 min
Stream Popular Full Audiobooks in History, EuropeMinds at War: How great artists and their work were shaped by the First World War by Sara Lefanu, Heather Jones, Fintan O'toole, Ruth Padel, David Edgerton, Elif ShafakPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568206to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Minds at War: How great artists and their work were shaped by the First World War
Author: Sara Lefanu, Heather Jones, Fintan O'toole, Ruth Padel, David Edgerton, Elif Shafak
Narrator: Various
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Release date: November 3, 2022
Genres: Europe
Publisher's Summary:
The complete BBC Radio 3 series exploring how great creative minds responded to the First World War in individual works of art and scholarship World War I saw an unprecedented loss of life in Western Europe, and destruction on a scale no one alive had ever...2022-11-036h 35
Stream Popular Full Audiobooks in History, EuropeMinds at War: How great artists and their work were shaped by the First World War by Sara Lefanu, Heather Jones, Fintan O'toole, Ruth Padel,Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Minds at War: How great artists and their work were shaped by the First World War Author: Sara Lefanu, Heather Jones, Fintan O'toole, Ruth Padel, David Edgerton, Elif Shafak Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 3, 2022 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: The complete BBC Radio 3 series exploring how great creative minds responded to the First World War in individual works of art and scholarship World War I saw an unprecedented loss of life in Western Europe, and destruction on a scale no one alive had...2022-11-0305 min
Download Best Full-Length Audiobooks in History, MilitaryMinds at War: How great artists and their work were shaped by the First World War by Sara Lefanu, Heather Jones, Fintan O'toole, Ruth Padel,Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Minds at War: How great artists and their work were shaped by the First World War Author: Sara Lefanu, Heather Jones, Fintan O'toole, Ruth Padel, David Edgerton, Elif Shafak Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 3, 2022 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: The complete BBC Radio 3 series exploring how great creative minds responded to the First World War in individual works of art and scholarship World War I saw an unprecedented loss of life in Western Europe, and destruction on a scale no one alive had...2022-11-0305 min
One Bright BookEpisode #6: Ill Feelings, by Alice HattrickJoin our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss Alice Hattrick's book ILL FEELINGS and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton. Read along with us if you like! Books mentioned: Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick This Little Art by Kate Briggs Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction by Brian Dillon The Years by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, translated by Tanya Leslie In Memory...2022-07-251h 07
dinner document by Rebecca May Johnson PodcastPodcast: OrienteeringHello! My name is Rebecca May Johnson, I am a writer and cook and this is my is the audio podcast version of my twenty-second newsletter, with the title Orienteering. In it I read aloud writing about a walk round Warrington with an IKEA canteen at the end, a recipe for caponata from solstice 2019, and eating notes.Book Events!I’ve a few events for SMALL FIRES, AN EPIC IN THE KITCHEN coming up soon:28 July | 19.00-21.00 | Libreria Bookshop, 65 Hanbury Street, London | Free, ticketedI am reading from an ex...2022-07-1313 min
dinner document by Rebecca May Johnson PodcastPodcast: Salmon MayonnaiseHello! My name is Rebecca May Johnson, I am a writer and cook and this is my is the audio podcast version of my twenty-first newsletter, with the title Salmon Mayonnaise. In it I read aloud writing about food eaten on a ferry, Freud’s salmon mayonnaise story as cited by Nuar Alsadir in her brilliant new book Animal Joy, a recipe for macerated nectarines and ricotta on toast, and everything I ate during 3 days on Colonsay.Book event news:24 August (the night before the book comes out) I am doing an event at the LR...2022-07-0611 min
A Point of ViewA View From Russia: All I Have To SayThe everyday repression of life in Russia, as experienced by an anonymous dissident playwright. In this essay, she reflects on the war in Ukraine and asks what role she and her fellow Russians might have played in it, what they might have done to stop it - and what Ukrainians must think of them now.In turn, she explains how the Russian state is actively controlling the narrative about the war - and reveals the harsh consequences for those who dare veer from the approved 'truth'. "They arrest protestors for carrying blank sheets...2022-04-0809 min
Planet PoetryJoy | Grief - with Sasha DugdaleSend us a textThen what angelic vision is this? It's Sasha Dugdale sharing poetry from her award-garlanded Carcanet collection Joy including an excerpt from the title poem in the voice of William Blake's wife Catherine. And in her latest work Deformations Sasha tackles, among other things, the conflicted legacy of Eric Gill. Plus Robin pines for more work by Sam Willetts, reflecting on his collection New Light for the Old Dark while Peter manages a complete U-turn about Mary Oliver and we dip back into Twitter for another thorny issue.Support the show2022-04-0752 min
Poetry in AldeburghScript, Shape and Image - the Poem and the PageScript, Shape and Image - the Poem and the Page (E14), Perception (3), Sunday 7th November 2021, 3-4 pmWith Jo Morris Dixon, Shash Trevett, Lisa Kelly, Harry Man and Endre Ruset. This event was hosted by Patricia DebneyHow do form and image – what is on the page, and what is not – shape poetry? How can they be used to speak about otherwise difficult things? The three projects explored in this session move between image, script, and shape as ways of reaching their material. Jo Morris Dixon’s debut pamphlet, I told you everything (Verve Press 2021), address...2022-02-211h 06
Planet PoetryPublisher | Poets - with Sharon Black & Di SlaneySend us a textWe see you. Covered in tinsel and cavorting with Dancer, Prancer, Vixen and the rest of those red nosed reindeers. Luckily here is a treat you can open immediately! Our interview with two inspiring poet publishers - Sharon Black of Pindrop Press, and Di Slaney of Candlestick Press - who share the proximity of goats but have distinct approaches to publishing. Plus Di Slaney treats us to a poem from Herd Queen (Valley Press) and Sharon Black shares a poem from her perfectly-formed pamphlet Rib (published by Wayleave Press). Over a mince...2021-12-211h 00Poetry in AldeburghOn Poetry and TraumaPerception (2) : On Poetry and Trauma (E9), Saturday 6th November 2021, 3-4 PMWith Chaucer Cameron, Day Mattar, Tessa Foley and Alice Hiller. Hosted by Patricia DebneySo many experiences of sexual abuse and trauma are silenced. How do we find the voices to speak about what is hidden, or secret? How does poetry emerge, and what does it sound like? Where do we go from here? Alice Hiller’s debut collection, Bird of Winter, tackles being groomed and sexually abused in childhood. Acclaimed by Sasha Dugdale as ‘…the excavation of a city...2021-11-161h 03
The Poetry of ScienceEpisode 125: Shifting Sounds in SpringThis episode explores new research, which has found that the sounds of spring are changing, with dawn choruses across North America and Europe becoming quieter and less varied.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Dawn Chorus’ by Sasha Dugdale here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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2021-11-0807 min
The TLS PodcastSurvival of the WittiestThis week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the scholars Janet Todd and Derek Hughes to revisit the life and work of Restoration England’s first woman of letters, the playwright Aphra Behn, who “seems formed for our noisy, sex-obsessed times”; the translator, poet and critic Sasha Dugdale considers Russian protest poetry and the rise of Galina Rymbu; plus, literary festivals rebooted.‘The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn: Volume IV: Plays, 1682–1696’, edited by Rachel Adcock, et al‘F Letter: New Russian feminist poetry’, edited by Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky and Ainsley Mors...2021-09-3049 min
The Fire These Times88/ A History of Nothing (With Susan A. Crane)This is a conversation with Susan A. Crane, author of the book “Nothing Happened: A History“
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Topics Discussed:
How do people think of the past?
What does Nothing even mean?
Four expressions of historical consciousness:
1- Nothing Happened
2- Nothing is the Way it Was
3- Nothing has Changed
4- Nothing is Left
How far away does the past have to be before being cons...2021-09-171h 27
Bande à part142: James BarnorWe discuss the beautiful exhibition of photographs by James Barnor at the Serpentine Gallery in London. See links below.
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‘James Barnor: Accra/London – A Retrospective’, Serpentine Gallery, London (19 May – 24 October 2021): https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/james-barnor/
‘Portraits of the Future: A Celebration of James Barnor’ (31 March 2021): https://youtu.be/AqhWdoMOWTQ
‘James Barnor: Ghanaian Modernist’, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (18 May – 31 October 2021): https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/bristol-museum-and-art-gallery/whats-on/bristol-photo-festival-james-barnor-ghanaian-modernist/
Autograph, ‘James Barnor: Ever Young’ (12 June 2020): https://autograph.org.uk/blog/james-barnor-ever-young-newspaper/ (free download of Autograph’s James Barnor exhibition...2021-09-0528 min
New Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesMaria Stepanova, "The Voice Over: Poems and Essays" (Columbia UP, 2021)Is it just a coincidence that three books by the major Russian writer Maria Stepanova have appeared in English in 2021? Why does Maria Stepanova deploy such a rich variety of voices and forms? What are the challenges of translating her poetry? Who are the pantheon of deceased writers who seem to haunt her every line? In this conversation, the editor of The Voice Over: Poems and Essays (Columbia UP, 2021), Irina Shevelenko talks about Stepanova's poetry and prose with Duncan McCargo. Irina elaborates on her wonderful introduction to the collection and explains how she assembled an outstanding team of tra...2021-08-2748 min
New Books in PoetryMaria Stepanova, "The Voice Over: Poems and Essays" (Columbia UP, 2021)Is it just a coincidence that three books by the major Russian writer Maria Stepanova have appeared in English in 2021? Why does Maria Stepanova deploy such a rich variety of voices and forms? What are the challenges of translating her poetry? Who are the pantheon of deceased writers who seem to haunt her every line? In this conversation, the editor of The Voice Over: Poems and Essays (Columbia UP, 2021), Irina Shevelenko talks about Stepanova's poetry and prose with Duncan McCargo. Irina elaborates on her wonderful introduction to the collection and explains how she assembled an outstanding team of tra...2021-08-2750 min
New Books in LiteratureMaria Stepanova, "The Voice Over: Poems and Essays" (Columbia UP, 2021)Is it just a coincidence that three books by the major Russian writer Maria Stepanova have appeared in English in 2021? Why does Maria Stepanova deploy such a rich variety of voices and forms? What are the challenges of translating her poetry? Who are the pantheon of deceased writers who seem to haunt her every line? In this conversation, the editor of The Voice Over: Poems and Essays (Columbia UP, 2021), Irina Shevelenko talks about Stepanova's poetry and prose with Duncan McCargo. Irina elaborates on her wonderful introduction to the collection and explains how she assembled an outstanding team of tra...2021-08-2750 min
Off the Page: A Columbia University Press PodcastMaria Stepanova, "The Voice Over: Poems and Essays" (Columbia UP, 2021)Is it just a coincidence that three books by the major Russian writer Maria Stepanova have appeared in English in 2021? Why does Maria Stepanova deploy such a rich variety of voices and forms? What are the challenges of translating her poetry? Who are the pantheon of deceased writers who seem to haunt her every line? In this conversation, the editor of The Voice Over: Poems and Essays (Columbia UP, 2021), Irina Shevelenko talks about Stepanova's poetry and prose with Duncan McCargo. Irina elaborates on her wonderful introduction to the collection and explains how she assembled an outstanding team of tra...2021-08-2748 min
New Books in Ukrainian StudiesMaria Stepanova, "The Voice Over: Poems and Essays" (Columbia UP, 2021)Is it just a coincidence that three books by the major Russian writer Maria Stepanova have appeared in English in 2021? Why does Maria Stepanova deploy such a rich variety of voices and forms? What are the challenges of translating her poetry? Who are the pantheon of deceased writers who seem to haunt her every line? In this conversation, the editor of The Voice Over: Poems and Essays (Columbia UP, 2021), Irina Shevelenko talks about Stepanova's poetry and prose with Duncan McCargo. Irina elaborates on her wonderful introduction to the collection and explains how she assembled an outstanding team of tra...2021-08-2748 min
Better KnownBeaty RubensBeaty Rubens discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
A BBC Radio producer for 35 years, Beaty Rubens has collaborated with some of the great names in broadcasting, the arts and academia. Her many documentaries have focussed on the arts, history and the lives of women and children. Some high-points include working with Lyse Doucet, Katya Adler and James Naughtie, Professor Mary Beard, Professor Emma Smith and Professor Thomas Dixon, dancers Akram Khan and Marianela Nunez, poets Seamus Heaney, Alice Oswald, Sean O’Brien and Sasha Dugdale, writers Michael Morpurgo, David Almond, Shirley Hu...2021-08-1529 min
Lost in TranslationsEpisode 30 - International Booker 2021In this episode we are talking about the International Booker Longlist 2021
Podcast Transcript Coming Soon
Mentioned in this episode;
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
Earthling by Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)
I Live in the Slums by Can Xue (translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping)
At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop (translated Anna Moschovakis)
The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili (translated by Elizabeth Heighway)
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez (translated by Megan McDowell)
When We Cease t...2021-04-1520 min
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesTranslation and Retranslation: priorities, discoveries, pleasuresTORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Oliver Ready (St Antony’s College) and Sasha Dugdale (Writer in Residence, St John’s College, Cambridge), two leading translators from the Russian, will discuss their work
This event is part of the Russian and Slavonic Research Seminar series which is kindly supported by the Ilchester Fund. The convenors of the series are Professor Catriona Kelly and Professor Philip Bullock. To find out more abou...2021-03-221h 20TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesTranslation and Retranslation: priorities, discoveries, pleasuresTORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Oliver Ready (St Antony’s College) and Sasha Dugdale (Writer in Residence, St John’s College, Cambridge), two leading translators from the Russian, will discuss their work
This event is part of the Russian and Slavonic Research Seminar series which is kindly supported by the Ilchester Fund. The convenors of the series are Professor Catriona Kelly and Professor Philip Bullock. To find out more abou...2021-03-221h 20
The VerbT.S. Eliot PrizeJoin Ian McMillan for a celebration of remarkable poets and poetry as he presents readings from all the collections shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. The prize is awarded annually by the T.S. Eliot Foundation for the best collection of the year - and the winner receives £25,000. Bhanu Kapil was declared this year's winner by the judges, for her 'invigorating' collection 'How to Wash a Heart'.Alongside readings from the poets themselves, Ian reflects on the resonance of their poems during this period of uncertainty. In keeping with our season 'Experiments in Living', he asks, "h...2021-01-2944 min
KonchGirl And Hare by Sasha Dugdale read by Neil Bickerton'Girl And Hare' by Sasha Dugdale read by Neil Bickerton. 'Girl And Hare' appears in the collection, 'Deformations' published by Carcanet in 2020. A transcript can be found at https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XIXxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT6&lpg=PT6&dq=%22Girl+and+Hare%22+Sasha+Dugdale&source=bl&ots=W-b827Y0Le&sig=ACfU3U2Rl7R5H1g1AK5lKrsWpMesWgtH7g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjJi6jqrvXsAhVLwlkKHcDACaQQ6AEwEXoECAcQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Girl%20and%20Hare%22%20Sasha%20Dugdale&f=false More from Neil Bickerton can be found at http://neilbickerton.com/2020-11-0902 min
NER Out LoudEpisode 12: 4 UK poetsHosted by Simone Edgar Holmes, this episode presents four poems from NER's special feature on contemporary poets from the UK, edited by Marilyn Hacker.
Shazea Quraishi reads "Elegy"; Seni Seneviratne reads "A Girl in the Woods"; Naomi Foyle reads "Made from Fibres Not Readily Penetrated"; and Sasha Dugdale brings it home with "Chair No. 14."
All of these poems can be found at www.nereview, issue 41.2.2020-10-0717 min
Southbank Centre: Think AloudA fly’s-eye-view of Among the TreesJoin poet Holly Corfield Carr, exploring human and non-human ways of looking at and listening to trees, in this podcast from Hayward Gallery's Among the Trees exhibition.
Holly considers artworks by Giuseppe Penone, Robert Smithson, Roxy Paine and Mariele Neudecker, and interweaves her own words with poems by Vahni Capildeo, Emily Dickinson, Sasha Dugdale and Alice Oswald.2020-04-2100 min
Southbank CentreA fly’s-eye-view of Among the TreesJoin poet Holly Corfield Carr, exploring human and non-human ways of looking at and listening to trees, in this podcast from Hayward Gallery's Among the Trees exhibition.
Holly considers artworks by Giuseppe Penone, Robert Smithson, Roxy Paine and Mariele Neudecker, and interweaves her own words with poems by Vahni Capildeo, Emily Dickinson, Sasha Dugdale and Alice Oswald.2020-04-2121 min
Frank Turner's Tales From No Man's LandI Believed You, William BlakeFrank is joined by poet, playwright and translator Sasha Dugdale to discuss the woman behind the song I Believed You, William Blake. Catherine Blake was the wife of the great visionary, painter and poet, who played a crucial role in his life. As well as running the household and keeping him (relatively) sane, she took an active role in his art; assisting with painting, printing and engraving. During his lifetime William Blake enjoyed very little success. It was Catherine who, after his death, began the process of his public rehabilitation and rise to fame. It’s perhaps down to he...2019-08-1400 min
Staying Alive: Poetry and CrisisEpisode 2: We Grow out of the PastInterview with UK poet and translator Sasha Dugdale, author of Red House (2011) and Joy (2017)2019-05-0131 min
The Podcast Hour'Podcast From The Past': a postcard podcastTom Jackson got into postcards more than 25 years ago, and since then he's built up a massive collection of around 60,000 of them. He's also written a book and started up a popular Twitter account @PastPostcard. In his show 'Podcast From The Past', Tom uses the postcard as a springboard into stories. Two guests bring some favourite postcards into the studio, Tom does the same, and they talk about what they mean and why they were sent. We speak to Tom Jackson about his collection and how he finds his guests, and play some of an episode of Podcast From the...2019-03-0900 min
The EssaySasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale1819 was a stunningly fertile year for John Keats, when he wrote five of the greatest odes in the English language and actually introduced words and phrases never heard before - "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.....", "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty....." "O for a beaker full of the warm South....." Five leading contemporary poets each celebrate a single ode.4. Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a NightingaleProducer; Beaty Rubens2019-01-1113 min
Podcast From The PastSamuel West & Sasha Dugdale - The Blue Hag of ChingfordJoining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are Forward Prize-winning poet SASHA DUGDALE and actor SAMUEL WEST (Howards End, Mr Selfridge). We discover a postcard that inspired a poem, a city in four countries, explore the joys of postcrossing and lift the lid on an a mysterious nightclub singer from Bucharest. Be energised, not enervated. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2018-07-0328 min
Modern Poetry in TranslationWar Of the Beasts And The Animals - Read by the poet Maria Stepanova and translator, Sasha DugdaleRussian poet Maria Stepanova wrote her epic poem ‘War of the Beasts and the Animals’ in 2015, when the war in the Donbas Region of Ukraine was at its height. Every line in this densely-populated and highly allusive poem emerges from a consciousness of conflict and the martial culture and mythology that allows state-sponsored violence to happen. Stepanova traces the mythmaking culture of war from ballads and films of the Russian Civil War through the Second World War and into the twenty-first century, and Russia’s illegal and covert involvement in a war against Ukraine.
‘War of the Beasts and the Animals’...2018-01-2029 minFront RowRita, Sue and Bob Too controversy, Philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer, Poet Sasha DugdaleIn December the Royal Court withdrew and then reinstated its invitation to stage a new touring production of Andrea Dunbar's semi-autobiographical 1982 play Rita Sue and Bob Too as a result of sexual harassment allegations made against its co-director Max Stafford Clark - himself a former Artistic Director of the Royal Court and one of the most influential theatre directors of his generation. The Royal Court's current Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone and theatre critic Lyn Gardner discuss the way in which the play continues to speak to young women today and the impact of the recent controversy on this particular...2018-01-1130 min
Modern Poetry in TranslationDenise Riley and Don Mee Choi read at the launch of MPT The Blue VeinIn this podcast:
00:00 - Introduction to Denise Riley
02:50 - Denise Riley reading begins
33.05 - Sasha Dugdale introduces Don Mee Choi
42.12 - Don Mee Choi reads translations of Kim Hyesoon
54:00 - Don Mee Choi reads translations of Kim Yideum
1:05:48 - Don Mee Choi reads from her book ‘The Morning News is Exciting’
This podcast features Denise Riley and Don Mee Choi. It was recorded at The Print Room, London, for the launch of Modern Poetry in Translation's winter issue 'The Blue Vein', which features Korean poetry including work by Kim Hyesoon, Kim Yidium, Han Kang and more. See the full contents on w...2017-04-031h 17
Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)Poet Maria Stepanova on Memory and Russia’s “Schizoid Present”Poet Maria Stepanova on Memory and Russia’s “Schizoid Present” “It is something very intimate, the way we communicate with the dead.” The Guardian called 2021 “the year of Stepanova” for good reason. Russian poet Maria Stepanova’s new book, In Memory of Memory (New Directions), translated by Sasha Dugdale, has been long-listed for the International Booker […]2016-04-2000 min
Modern Poetry in Translation50 years of MPT: International Translation Day 2015 with Sasha Dugdale, Helen and David ConstantineModern Poetry in Translation Magazine (MPT) celebrates fifty years between July 2015 and July 2016 with a programme of special events and publications. To mark the occasion, MPT is working with Bloodaxe Books to publish an anthology of the most exciting and important work published in MPT over the last 50 years.
Speaking at International Translation Day in October 2015, Sasha Dugdale was joined by former editors David and Helen Constantine to discuss the anthology and look back over the magazine's extraordinary history.
Find out more about MPT's 50th anniversary: bit.ly/MPT502015-10-051h 09
Modern Poetry in TranslationMichael Rosen and Marina Boroditskaya: Out of the Crocodile's MouthThis podcast was recorded at the launch of MPT ‘I WISH...' and features Michael Rosen and Marina Boroditskaya in conversaiton with MPT Editor, Sasha Dugdale.
Read an interview with Michael and Marina on the MPT Magazine website here: http://bit.ly/1Yge46E
Read poems from MPT 'I WISH...' here: http://bit.ly/1KsAmw02015-09-171h 14The EssayAkhmatova's July 1914The poet and translator Sasha Dugdale explores the impact of the First War on the great Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova. Her focus is on the collection, White Flock, published in 1917, but written during the war. In many poems, Akhmatova mentions the war directly, and in others, echoes of loss and war sound, refracted through peculiarly Russian folk imagery. Sasha focuses on a two-part poem called 'July 1914'. In the first stanza, the turf has been burning for four weeks and the dry summer smells of smoke and fumes. The birds aren't singing and the aspen...2015-06-2613 min
Traverse TheatreTravCast - Sasha Dugdale & Chris Campbell - The Art of TranslationTravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Emma Callander, interviews well known playwrights and theatremakers whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.
In this episode, Emma speaks to Chris Campbell and Sasha Dugdale about the art of translation.
A translator and poet, Sasha Dugdale has translated many plays from Russian for theatres around the world, including the Royal Court Theatre, the Traverse Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC Radio Drama. She also translates poetry and short stories, and her translation of the poet Elena Shvarts’ Birdsong on the...2015-04-1323 min
Scottish Poetry Library Podcast[SPL] February 2015: Sasha DugdaleRyan Van Winkle talks to the poet Sasha Dugdale, who is also editor of Modern Poetry in Translation. She tells us about how some of her poems come from 'failed translations' and she discusses how sound plays a much more important role in her own writing than other factors. She also discusses the problems involved with being a poet and a poetry translator. Presented by Ryan Van Winkle and produced by Colin Fraser of Culture Laser Productions http://www.culturelaser.com @culturelaser2015-02-0827 min
Scottish Poetry Library Podcast[SPL] December: After LermontovThis year marks the bicentenary of the birth of the Russian novelist and poet Mikhail Lermontov. A new book, After Lermontov, features a number of the Russian's poems translated into English. Many of the poets involved are Scottish because Lermontov traced his ancestry back to Scotland and was a great admirer of Ossian and Walter Scott. Our latest podcast looks at After Lermontov in the company of its editor and contributors: Peter France, Robert Crawford, Sasha Dugdale and Alexander Hutchison. We also take a look at the short, turbulent life of the poet, a controversial figure in his day...2014-12-1133 min
Modern Poetry in TranslationTransparenting: vanishing in Krystyna Miłobędzka's poetry. (Polish Focus, 'Secret Agents of Sense')Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese reads a six-word poem by Krystyna Miłobędzka in English and Polish, then discusses her arrival at the word 'transparenting' which runs vertically through the centre of the poem.
Talking to MPT Editor Sasha Dugdale, Elżbieta then discusses how the poem's typographical layout in MPT's 'Secret Agents of Sense' becomes central to it's translated meaning.2013-11-0806 min
Modern Poetry in TranslationOn Justyna Bargielska - reading and conversation with Maria JastrzębskaA reading of Polish poet Justyna Bargielska's 'Two mirrors, one of which magnifies' from Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese and the English translation from Maria Jastrzębska.
Followed by a discussion with Sasha Dugdale on poetry translation, neologisms and the origin of the 'tantrum tour'...2013-11-0806 min
Free Buddhist AudioPoetry East: Sasha Dugdale InterviewIn this week’s FBA Podcast, Maitreyabandhu brings us “Poetry East: Sasha Dugdale Interview.” Sasha Dugdale is a poet and translator. She worked for the British Council in Russia in the 1990s where she set up the Russian New Writing Project with the Royal Court Theatre. Since her return in 2001 she has translated new plays for the Court, the RSC and other theatre companies. Her recent translations of Elena Shvarts’ poems Birdsong on the Seabed were shortlisted for the Popescu Prize and the Academica Rossica Award. Her third book of poetry Red House appeared in August 2011 and is published by Carca...2013-03-0242 min
Free Buddhist AudioPoetry East: Sasha Dugdale InterviewIn this week's FBA Podcast, Maitreyabandhu brings us "Poetry East: Sasha Dugdale Interview." Sasha Dugdale is a poet and translator. She worked for the British Council in Russia in the 1990s where she set up the Russian New Writing Project with the Royal Court Theatre. Since her return in 2001 she has translated new plays for the Court, the RSC and other theatre companies. Her recent translations of Elena Shvarts' poems Birdsong on the Seabed were shortlisted for the Popescu Prize and the Academica Rossica2013-03-0242 min