Agnès Agboton, Astrid Alben, Lawrence Schimel and Clare Pollard – From MPT Clean Hands
Modern Poetry in Translation
English - May 11, 2021 15:04 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture Places & Travel poetry translation literature world modern culture international literary Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This podcast accompanies the spring 2021 MPT: Clean Hands: Focus on the Pandemic in Europe.
This focus section includes a poems from the StAnza 'Windowswap' project – pairing up poets to share photos of the views from their windows and then respond in poetry form to their partner’s view.
In this podcast Clare Pollard spoke to one of these poet pairs – Astrid Alben and Agnès Agboton, with translator Lawrence Schimel. Tune in for a discussion of poetry, the pandemic and writing through lockdown.
Find out more about this issue at https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/magazine/clean-hands-2021-number-1/
Find the windows poems online at: https://stanzapoetry.org/festival/exhibitions/windowswap