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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Paul Celan in Mapesbury Road

BBC iPlayer: "What brought one of the most compelling modern European poets to a perfectly ordinary street in North London? Who did he visit there? And what made him write a poem about the experience? The writer, Toby Litt, investigates this most improbable of brief encounters between Paul Celan, the master elegist of 20th century Jewish experience and Britain at the end of the Sixties."

Available until 12:02pm Tue, 26 Oct 2010
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 11:30am Tue, 19 Oct 2010
Duration 30 minutes


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Mapesbury Road runs from Shoot Up Hill, which is between Kilburn and Cricklewood to Willesden Lane at Brondesbury Park to be precise. It's not as somebody says in the commentary "...North Kilburn ... South Cricklewood ... a no man's land", it's got a serviceable name of its own: Mapesbury, and is an official conservation area. There are a lot of magnolias all around here to this date. (More: Mapesbury - Wikipedia) (Ed.)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Southbank Centre have an exhibition opening on 31st October about the Paul Celan poem Mapesbury road:

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/mapesbury-road-1000067
Also an evening of music and readings featuring Michael Nyman Band to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Celan's birth and 40th of his death on 6th Nov:

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/celebrating-paul-celan-poetry-after-auschwitz-54679