Christopher Whyte's guest appearances

Christopher Whyte

Café Fra - autorská čtení

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast

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Christopher Whyte is a poet and translator whose last collection, Step by Step, which is published by Acair, was runner-up in the 2019 Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Prize. Whyte stopped off at the SPL towards the end of last year accompanied by his translator Petra Poncarova.Since Christopher Whyte’s Gaelic poetry first appeared in the 1980s, he has been an influential and sometimes controversial figure in the world of Gaelic writing. In Whyte’s work, poetry and language are inescapably political, bound up with questions of belonging, enfranchisement and equality. But he is also an intensely personal poet.During the course of our interview, he discusses how he came to learn Gaelic, why it is a language of resistance, and his relationships with several Scottish poetry greats such as Derrick Thomson, Sorley macLean and Edwin Morgan, with who he conducted a groundbreaking interview.

Christopher Whyte is a poet and translator whose last collection, Step by Step, which is published by Acair, was runner-up in the 2019 Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Prize. Whyte stopped off at the SPL towards the end of last year accompanied by his translator Petra Poncarova. Since Christopher Whyte’s Gaelic poetry first appeared in the 1980s, he has been an influential and sometimes controversial figure in the world of Gaelic writing. In Whyte’s work, poetry and language are inescapably political, bound up with questions of belonging, enfranchisement and equality. But he is also an intensely personal poet. During the course of our interview, he discusses how he came to learn Gaelic, why it is a language of resistance, and his relationships with several Scottish poetry greats such as Derrick Thomson, Sorley macLean and Edwin Morgan, with who he conducted a groundbreaking interview.

autorská čtení v Café Fra, Praha čtvrtek 22. října 2015, 19.30 h. poetry in service: Christopher Whyte (Skotsko)&amp; PJ Poncarová (úvod, komentáře, překlad)audio a foto: Jitka Hanušováhttps://flic.kr/s/aHsknJER6uAutorská čtení v Café Fra: dramaturgie a produkce Petr Borkovec (tel. 724827499), fotografie a audio Jitka Hanušová, pořádá Fra s pod­porou Ministerstva kultury ČR, Magistrátu hlavního města Prahy, MČ Praha 2, paní Hany Michalikové, partneři Literature Across Fron­tiers (s podporou Programu Kultura EU), Polský institut v Praze, Literárne infor­mačné centrum, A2, spolupráce iliteratura.cz, Listy, Slovenský institut, Literární aka­demie Josefa Škvoreckého, Totem, revue Souvislosti, literarnyklub.sk a Kruh.

autorská čtení v Café Fra, Praha  čtvrtek 22. října 2015, 19.30 h.  poetry in service: Christopher Whyte (Skotsko) &amp; PJ Poncarová (úvod, komentáře, překlad) audio a foto: Jitka Hanušová <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsknJER6u" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://flic.kr/s/aHsknJER6u</a> Autorská čtení v Café Fra: dramaturgie a produkce Petr Borkovec (tel. 724827499), fotografie a audio Jitka Hanušová, pořádá Fra s pod­porou Ministerstva kultury ČR, Magistrátu hlavního města Prahy, MČ Praha 2, paní Hany Michalikové, partneři Literature Across Fron­tiers (s podporou Programu Kultura EU), Polský institut v Praze, Literárne infor­mačné centrum, A2, spolupráce <a href="http://iliteratura.cz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iliteratura.cz</a>, Listy, Slovenský institut, Literární aka­demie Josefa Škvoreckého, Totem, revue Souvislosti, <a href="http://literarnyklub.sk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">literarnyklub.sk</a> a Kruh.

Christopher Whyte (Skotsko)