The second event of the series Science of Poetry is all about Nature Writing.
Lecture and talk with Gerhard Falkner (author, Berlin) | Alice Oswald (author, Devon) | Sjón (author, Reykjavík) | hosted by Asmus Trautsch (author, Berlin)
In her long poem Dart (Faber & Faber 2002), one of the canonical texts of Nature Writing, Alice Oswald (born 1966 in Reading) follows the course of the river of the same name in County Devon, which springs at Dartmoor and flows into the English Channel at Dartmouth. The text is an artistic, many-voiced field research with soil samples and o-tones of the local people.
With his book bewegliche berge (Edition Rugerup 2018) author and artist Sjón (born 1962 in Reykjavik) presents unusual natural poems in which a creator goddess sinks into melancholy because the face of the world before turns into something else. It tells of a time "before we lost the polar bear and the white falcon / when we still heard the cawing of the white ravens".
"Out into the tricky nature", says Gerhard Falkner (born 1951 in Schwabach) in his latest volume Schorfheide: Gedichte en plein air (Berlin Verlag 2019), which abducts the reader into the glacial biosphere reserve of the same name. In it, he attempts to update the basic vocabulary of natural poetry, which came out of fashion in the second half of the last century. From the "linguistic scanning of nature", which Falkner takes to be a kind of sign system, sensual poems full of discourse emerge.
Tickets are €6 / €4.
English-German interpreting will be available for this event.