Award-winning poet and author Michael Symmons Roberts will be in Germany this October to read from his work and lead workshops in Dresden, Frankfurt and Hamburg.
Michael Symmons Roberts has won the Whitbread Poetry Award and been shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Forward Prize, and twice for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
His work as a librettist with composer James MacMillan has included choral commissions, song cycles, music theatre works and operas for the Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera, Boston Lyric Opera and Welsh National Opera. Their WNO commission – ‘The Sacrifice’ – won the RPS Award for opera.
His broadcast work includes ‘A Fearful Symmetry’ - for Radio 4 - which won the Sandford St Martin Prize, and ‘Last Words’ commissioned by Radio 4 to mark the first anniversary of 9/11.
His most recent book, Edgelands, written in collaboration with fellow poet Paul Farley, won the Jerwood Prize for non-fiction in 2010 and was broadcast as a BBC Book of the Week.
Michael teaches poetry at the Manchester Writing School (Manchester Metropolitan University) and is currently programme leader for the MA in Creative Writing.
Dates
24 October 2011 - Hamburg
Workshop, 13:00-17:00 hrs
Universität Hamburg, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
www.uni-hamburg.de/iaa
Reading, 19:30 hrs
Nachhaltigkeits Pavillon Osaka 9, Hafen City
www.hafencity.com/de/infocenter/nachhaltigkeitspavillon-osaka-9.html
26 October 2011 - Dresden
Workshop, 10:00-14:00 hrs
Technische Universität Dresden
tu-dresden.de
Reading, 19:00 hrs
Literaturhaus Dresden, Villa Augustin
www.literaturhaus-dresden.de
28 October 2011 – Frankfurt am Main
Workshop, 13:00-17:00 hrs
Universität Frankfurt
Reading, 18:00 hrs
“Holzgeschoss“, Universität Frankfurt
www.uni-frankfurt.de
For further information please contact:
Felix Sprang: felix.sprang@uni-hamburg.de
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