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Poetry Extra: Paul Celan in Mapesbury Road

22/05/2016

Paul Celan in Mapesbury Road

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Paul Celan in Mapesbury Road

Daljit Nagra introduces Paul Celan in Mapesbury Road - Europe's master elegist.

4 Extra Debut. Daljit Nagra introduces Paul Celan in Mapesbury Road - Europe's master elegist. With Toby Litt. From October 2010.

BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Paul Celan in Mapesbury Road'. 

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? 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.

Producer: Zahid Warley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.

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