poesiefestival berlin: John Burnside to give the 2017 Berlin Poetry Lecture
14.03.2017
The Scottish poet and novelist John Burnside will be giving the 2017 Berlin Poetry Lecture in the Academy of Arts on Pariser Platz on 18 June. The event is taking place under the aegis of the poesiefestival berlin.
The title of the lecture is ‘Where executives would never want to tamper?’ It will be discussing the question raised in the sub-title of ‘how poetry survives in an age of cultural totalitarianism.’ John Burnside will be talking about the unstable condition of our world and the value of poetry. The lecture will be published as a book in a bilingual edition by Wallstein Verlag.
Please save the date: Berlin Poetry Lecture under the aegis of the poesiefestival berlin
Sunday, 18 June 2017, 11:00 a.m.
Academy of Arts, Pariser Platz 4, Berlin
Accreditation at: presse@haus-fuer-poesie.org
John Burnside will also be reading at the opening event “Weltklang” of the 18th poesiefestival berlin: Europa_ Fata Morgana, which is taking place from 16 to 24 June 2017, in co-operation with the Academy of Arts.
John Burnside: ‘Wo die Exekutive Ihre Finger einzieht? / Where executives would never want to tamper? Wie die Poesie im Zeitalter des Kultur-Totalitarismus überlebt / How poetry survives in an age of cultural totalitarianism’. German/English. Translated from English by Iain Galbraith. Berliner Rede zur Poesie; Vol. 2. c. 80 pp., hardcover, c. € 13.90. Wallstein Verlag 978-3-8353-3063-4