Peter D. McDonald talks to the poet Daljit Nagra about cultural diversity, the contemporary life and history of the English language, the canons of English literature, and translation.
Peter D McDonald in conversation with Daljit Nagra
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The discussion includes readings by the poet from across all his published collections, including 'The Ramayana: A Retelling (2013)'.
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In this series Peter D. McDonald, Professor of English and Related Literature in the Faculty of English and Fellow of St Hugh's College, talks to contemporary writers about their work. While attending to the specificities of each writer's approach to writing, the series also considers a number of interconnected themes, including multilingualism, translation, environmental pressures of all kinds, and ideas of the intercultural.