Olivia McCannon's guest appearances

Olivia McCannon

Modern Poetry in Translation

AE Housman

Chris Beckett

Denise Riley

Tara Bergin

Michael Rosen

Han Kang

Sasha Dugdale

George Szirtes

Philip Gross

Durs Grünbein

Gerda Stevenson

Ken Cockburn

Alexander Hutchison

Liz Berry

Choman Hardi

OwlTail

Susan Wicks

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.

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*.<br><br>About the translators:<br>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.

Translation Duel at Ledbury Poetry Festival! Olivia McCannon vs Susan Wicks