Translation Duel at Ledbury Poetry Festival! Olivia McCannon vs Susan Wicks
Modern Poetry in Translation
English - July 16, 2017 16:37 - 52 minutes - 24 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
Two poet-translators rattle their sabres for a duel of words and French poetry! Listen to MPT's translation duel which took place at Ledbury Poetry Festival, Sunday 9 July 2017. Olivia McCannon and Susan Wicks went head-to-head with their translations of a poem by Ariane Dreyfus. *No poets were harmed in the production of this event*.
About the translators:
Olivia McCannon is a translator of Balzac and winner of the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Susan Wicks’ translations of Valérie Rouzeau have won prizes and her own seventh collection, The Months was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.