Responses to Rilke
Scottish Poetry Library
5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh
7.30pm
£5/£3
A chance to hear two poets, Don Paterson and Jo Shapcott, discussing the lasting leagacy of Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Paterson has recently translated Rilke's Sonnets To Orpheus.
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£12.99Sonnets To Orpheus: A Version Of Rilke's Die Sonette An Orpheus - Hardback -
Since his work was translated by J.B. Leishman and Stephen Spender in the 1930s, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) has never lost his significance for English-speaking poets. This is a new translation by Don Paterson.