Scottish Poetry Library Podcast

In this podcast, Jennifer Williams meets Nora Gomringer just after her Poetry Centre Stage reading at Scotland’s International Poetry Festival StAnza 2016. They talk about poetry on TV, how poetry can and should include a multiplicity tones and registers, the joy of bringing poetry alive through the body and much more. This podcast was recorded in cooperation with Scotland’s International Poetry Festival StAnza 2016 and with Literature Across Frontiers as part of the Literary Europe Live project supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Nora Gomringer was born in 1980. Her background is in page-related poetry and spoken word, her present is the vast variety of poetry and recitation. For her work, she has received numerous bursaries and awards. Recently, she and the musician Philipp Scholz received the renowned Villa Kowagama Residency bursary in Kyoto for the autumn of 2016. In 2015 she was awarded the prestigious German literary award, the Ingeborg Bachmann prize. Since 2010 she