Pádraig Ó Tuama

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1,142 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6d ago

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Poetry Unbound · Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Karen Leeder · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

If you're lucky, yeah.

Karen, you're an academic, you're a professor in Oxford, and you began your academic life researching the underground poetry, art and music scene that existed in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

I'm curious if there's any um skipping stones that you can trace for us between that beginning and then this work of translation of Durst Grundbein that you're doing now.

Last night when you were both presented with the prize, Dorse said, I hope as well that poetry is a support to ideas of democracy and humanity.

That's my training in poetry.

That's why I'm writing poetry.

Do you see a through line from um the beginnings of your encounters with his work and what he said last night?

And I suppose the idea of of aesthetic in conversation with a public moral good?

I've got about fifty questions for you, Karen, about translation.

I'm only going to choose a few of them.

You'll be glad to hear.

But first of all, I suppose I want you to locate translation for us as something that perhaps most people are doing most of the time.

I find myself thinking about, you know, what I'm thinking and then what I say, and then what you might hear me say and what you might comprehend in terms of what I say, that each of those are layers of translation as well.

Could you, as somebody who works in this, so

so profoundly and in so many different ways.

Could you let us know about what it is that you as a professional translator of literature also know about the kind of translation that's happening in most people most of the time?

Mm-hmm.

Do you find that uh there's a a recognition and perhaps even a necessity that a translation must reckon with the limitations of itself and that that's perhaps where the art occurs?

Or do you somet do you look for a perfect translation if such a thing's possible?

I'm curious to hear um your insight on those things.

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