Summary: Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Mark Glanville to mark the centenary of the birth of Paul Celan, probably the most important post-war German-language poet, by revisiting the early poems in light of his later transformation; and Margaret Drabble considers the literature of urban walking, via the fiction of G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells and other metropolitan ramblers. Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The collected earlier poetry: A bilingual edition, translated by Pierre Joris Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous prose, translated by Pierre Joris Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan, by Jean Daive, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop The Walker: On finding and losing yourself in the modern city, by Matthew Beaumont <br><hr><p style="color: grey;">See <a style="color: grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
