The video of me reading three poems, in german and spanish, is now online for the Stephen Spender Trust. It follows this http://www.stevenjfowler.com/blog/spender
“Poet SJ Fowler discusses how poetry in other languages inspires him and reads out three poems (two in German and one in Spanish). Learn more about Fowler’s thoughts on listening to poems in other languages and his experience of reading the three poems aloud:
Featured poems: SJ Fowler, Meise (translated by Konstantin Ames) Thomas Bernhard, AN H. W. Octavio Paz, Casa Real SJ Fowler is a writer, poet, and artist who lives in London. He is the director of the European Poetry Festival.”
It looks a little like ive been churned by the sun, tanning myself like a lizard, but that’s what you get when you make a video by a window on your phone and I clearly do not speak these languages and pronounced them poorly and that makes me a kind of idiot, but that’s fine, you have to push on