Location: UEA Drama Studio
Date: 6.30pm 6 Feb 2012
Ticket Price: Free to attend, open to all
The second event in the UEA's Poetry and Translation series, hosted by the School of Literature, Drama & Creative Writing.
You are warmly invited to the second event in our mini-series of Poetry and Translation readings, hosted by the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing in collaboration with the Alumni Association Annual Fund.
Monday 6th February 2012 at 6.30 pm in the Drama Studio - FREE to attend, open to everyone.
Drinks reception in the interval
Michael Hulse’s poetry has won him first prize in the UK’s National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Poetry Competition (twice), and Eric Gregory and Cholmondeley Awards from the Society of Authors, and has brought him invitations to reading tours of Canada, the US and Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, India, and several European countries. His work has been praised by Robert Gray, C. K. Stead, Sean O’Brien, Simon Armitage, the late Peter Porter, and many others. He has translated more than sixty books from the German, among them works by Goethe, Rilke, W. G. Sebald, and Nobel Prize winners Elfriede Jelinek and Herta Müller, bringing him plaudits from Susan Sontag and A. S. Byatt. His latest publications are The 20th Century in Poetry, an anthology of twentieth-century poetry of the English-speaking world co-edited with Simon Rae (Ebury Press, Random House, 2011), described by The Guardian as “magnificent”; a new book of poems, The Secret History (Arc, 2009); and a translation of Rilke’s novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin Classics, 2009). Michael will be reading from his translation of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge and from his own poetry.
George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948 and came to England as a refugee in 1956. He was brought up in London and studied Fine Art in London and Leeds. His poems began appearing in national magazines in 1973 and his first book, The Slant Door, was published in 1979. It won the Faber Memorial prize the following year. By this time he was married with two children. After the publication of his second book, November and May, 1982, he was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Since then he has published several books and won various other prizes including the T S Eliot Prize for Reel in 2005. Having returned to his birthplace, Budapest, for the first time in 1984, he has also worked extensively as a translator of poems, novels, plays and essays and has won various prizes and awards in this sphere. His own work has been translated into numerous languages. George Szirtes is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and teaches a range of courses, including the MA in Poetry. George will be reading from his translation of Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s forthcoming Satantango as well as a number of poems.
The series will continue on April 24th 2012 when Timothy Adès, Martin Sorrell and Moniza Alvi will be reading. For further information on this series please contact A.Fawcett@uea.ac.uk.
Monday 6th February 2012 at 6.30 pm in the Drama Studio - FREE to attend, open to everyone.
Drinks reception in the interval
Michael Hulse’s poetry has won him first prize in the UK’s National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Poetry Competition (twice), and Eric Gregory and Cholmondeley Awards from the Society of Authors, and has brought him invitations to reading tours of Canada, the US and Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, India, and several European countries. His work has been praised by Robert Gray, C. K. Stead, Sean O’Brien, Simon Armitage, the late Peter Porter, and many others. He has translated more than sixty books from the German, among them works by Goethe, Rilke, W. G. Sebald, and Nobel Prize winners Elfriede Jelinek and Herta Müller, bringing him plaudits from Susan Sontag and A. S. Byatt. His latest publications are The 20th Century in Poetry, an anthology of twentieth-century poetry of the English-speaking world co-edited with Simon Rae (Ebury Press, Random House, 2011), described by The Guardian as “magnificent”; a new book of poems, The Secret History (Arc, 2009); and a translation of Rilke’s novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin Classics, 2009). Michael will be reading from his translation of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge and from his own poetry.George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948 and came to England as a refugee in 1956. He was brought up in London and studied Fine Art in London and Leeds. His poems began appearing in national magazines in 1973 and his first book, The Slant Door, was published in 1979. It won the Faber Memorial prize the following year. By this time he was married with two children. After the publication of his second book, November and May, 1982, he was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Since then he has published several books and won various other prizes including the T S Eliot Prize for Reel in 2005. Having returned to his birthplace, Budapest, for the first time in 1984, he has also worked extensively as a translator of poems, novels, plays and essays and has won various prizes and awards in this sphere. His own work has been translated into numerous languages. George Szirtes is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and teaches a range of courses, including the MA in Poetry. George will be reading from his translation of Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s forthcoming Satantango as well as a number of poems.The series will continue on April 24th 2012 when Timothy Adès, Martin Sorrell and Moniza Alvi will be reading. For further information on this series please contact A.Fawcett@uea.ac.uk.
