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Astrid Alben

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Modern Poetry in Translation

a poem a week

Siddhartha Bose

Sujata Bhatt

Khairani Barokka

George Szirtes

Seán Hewitt

David Turner

Mohsin Hamid

Elizabeth McCracken

Chris Beckett

Juan Pablo Villalobos

Carmen Maria Machado

Kamila Shamsie

Mary Jean Chan

Adam Thirlwell

Sally Rooney

OwlTail

Clare Pollard

Agnès Agboton

Lawrence Schimel

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

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 <a href="https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/magazine/clean-hands-2021-number-1/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/magazine/clean-hands-2021-number-1/</a> Find the windows poems online at: <a href="https://stanzapoetry.org/festival/exhibitions/windowswap" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://stanzapoetry.org/festival/exhibitions/windowswap</a>

Agnès Agboton, Astrid Alben, Lawrence Schimel and Clare Pollard – From MPT Clean Hands

Astrid Alben reads her poem 'Words To Say It'. For more from Astrid:https://www.astridalben.com/ https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/plainspeak/ https://twitter.com/AstridAlbenFor more from us:lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ twitter.com/apoemaweek www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here:snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Astrid Alben reads her poem 'Words To Say It'. For more from Astrid: <a href="https://www.astridalben.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.astridalben.com/</a> <a href="https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/plainspeak/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/plainspeak/</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AstridAlben" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/AstridAlben</a> For more from us: <a href="http://lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/apoemaweek" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twitter.com/apoemaweek</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/apoemaweekpodcast/</a> Order 'Why Poetry?: The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology' here: <a href="http://vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/</a> Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: <a href="http://snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/</a>

Ep.81 - 'Words To Say It' by Astrid Alben

In this edition of the Granta podcast we speak to Astrid Alben, who reads a selection from her book of poetry Plainspeak, discusses her work as a translator and as an editor of the interdisciplinary journal Pars, shares a poem by Valérie Rouzeau – translated from the French by Susan Wicks – and explains how she develops her poetic alter ego.

In this edition of the Granta podcast we speak to Astrid Alben, who reads a selection from her book of poetry Plainspeak, discusses her work as a translator and as an editor of the interdisciplinary journal Pars, shares a poem by Valérie Rouzeau – translated from the French by Susan Wicks – and explains how she develops her poetic alter ego.

Astrid Alben: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 82