George Szirtes FRSL, winner of T S Eliot Prize for poetry and translator of Nobel Prize winning novelist, László Krasznahorkai, reads from his recent and new poems about refugees and migration, and from his translations of the poetry of Hungarian poet Krisztina Tóth, while offering a glimpse of Krasznahorkai too.
What is it to translate? What does fidelity mean in translation? Why are poetry and translation important? How far is writing in itself an act of translation?