BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:talks.ox.ac.uk BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Revoicing Classical Poetry - Josephine Balmer\, Ulrike Draesner\, Inconversation with Professor Karen Leeder DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260303T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260303T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/42a84f2c-6364-4aba-a2ba-23355fb86869/ DESCRIPTION:This is a hybrid event (go to the APGRD website for the Zoom l ink) organised by the APGRD\, co-hosted with the Department of German\, Un iversity of Oxford.\n\nA reading from Josephine Balmer’s Things We Leav e Behind (ed. by Paschalis Nikolaou\, Shearsman 2025) and Ulrike Draesner' s penelope's cr()ft: a postepic (German original: penelopes sch()ff: poste pos\, Penguin 2025)\, followed by a conversation of the two authors with K aren Leeder.\n\nJosephine Balmer is a poet\, classical translator\, resear ch scholar and literary critic. Her published works include the acclaimed translation Sappho: Poems and Fragments (1984\, 1986 & 1992)\, and Classi cal Women Poets (1996)\, both with Bloodaxe. After volumes of Catullus an d Ovid\, her 2013 volume Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Class ical Verse\, Creating Contemporary Poetry\, a full-length monograph on cre ative classical translation for OUP . Her The Paths of Survival\, tracing the often fragile survival of the written word from antiquity to the prese nt day\, was published by Shearsman and subsequently shortlisted for the 2 017 London Hellenic Prize. Her work has been awarded a Wingate Foundation Scholarship\, a South East Arts’ Writers Bursary\, two Authors’ Founda tion Awards\, an inaugural US Lambda Literary Award and an Arts’ Council Write Out Loud Award. Her most recent volume\, Things We Leave Behind: S elected Poems (2025) was edited by Paschalis Nikolaou and named one of the ‘Observer Best Poetry Books’ of 2025. \n \nUlrike Draesner is a freel ance writer living in Berlin and in Leipzig\, where she has been director of the German Literature Institute Leipzig since 2018. She received her do ctorate in German Medieval Studies in 1992. Over the past twenty-five year s\, she has published poetry collections\, novels\, several collections of stories and essays\, radio plays\, translations\, opera libretti\, and h as participated in numerous intermedia projects. She has had residencies i n Germany\, Switzerland\, USA and Oxford. Ulrike Draesner's work has recei ved many awards\, most recently the Grand Prize of the German Literature F und 2021 and the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in the summer of 2024 along with the Gisela Elsner Literature Prize and the Chri stine Lavant Prize for penelopes sch()ff: postepos (English: penelope’s cr()ft: a postepic)\, published by Penguin in 2025. A volume of her poetry \, This porous fabric: Selected Poems\, translated by Iain Galbraith appea red with Shearsman in 2022. \n \nKaren Leeder is a writer\, translator and Schwarz-Taylor Chair of German Language Literature at the University of O xford. She teaches and publishes especially on modern and contemporary poe try and is currently PI on the project ‘AfterWords’ with an Einstein V isiting Fellowship at the FU\, Berlin. She also translates German-language poetry: including books by Volker Braun\, Hans Magnus Enzensberger\, Mich ael Krüger\, Durs Grünbein\, Evelyn Schlag\, Ulrike Almut Sandig\, and R aoul Schrott. As a translator she has won many awards\, including most rec ently\, the Griffin Prize 2025 for her translation of Durs Grünbein\, Psy che Running: Selected Poems 2005-2022 (Seagull\, 2024).\nSpeakers:\nJoseph ine Balmer\, Ulrike Draesner\, Inconversation with Professor Karen Leeder LOCATION:66 St Giles' (Lecture Theatre)\, 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/42a84f2c-6364-4aba-a2ba-23355fb86869/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Revoicing Classical Poetry - Josephine Balmer\, Ulrike Dr aesner\, Inconversation with Professor Karen Leeder TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR