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 Michael Hofmann: Selected Poems [29:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“It’s almost as though my poetry is an extended passport application… It’s an attempt to be naturalized. I think I’ve failed to be naturalized and therefore there is this German residue about things. It’s something I feel haunted by…”
I’m delighted that the first poet to appear on Podularity is Michael Hofmann. I’ve known Michael […]

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 T. H. Barrett - The woman who discovered printing [30:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“I think the burning question is: we think of printing as having revolutionized intellectual life in Europe, how come it doesn’t appear to have revolutionized intellectual life in China?
There’s no great fanfare when it arrives. It seems to creep in and people don’t talk about it much for quite a long time. That was the […]

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