Stephen Fry reads Czesław Miłosz
A treat for readers of the Times Literary Supplement: a free, limited-edition audiobook of Czesław Miłosz's poetry read by Stephen Fry. This selection ranges across his rich life and work, from his early poems in the 1930s to his final years; from Lithuania of his youth, war-torn Poland, through Communism, exile in France and the USA, to his return to his beloved Krakow. Stephen Fry: "It gave me enormous pleasure to read these poems, which I count as amongst the best written in any language since the war. It would give me even more pleasure if I thought that this recording might bring Milosz and his dazzling mixture of honesty, insight and pure poetic instinct to a wider, English-speaking readership."
Stephen Fry This major project is a co-production of the Polish Cultural Institute in London and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw. It commemorates both the Polish Presidency of the EU Council and the Miłosz Year 2011
Free Audio Download: http://www.polishculture.org.uk/nc/news/article/listen-to-czeslaw-miloszs-poems-read-by-stephen-fry-514//nbp/1.html
& more ‘MIŁOSZ DATES’:
3RD OCTOBER
Czesław Miłosz. The Mind of a Great Poet
Hosted by Poet in the City & the British Library, London: an evening of poetry, politics & conversation chaired by poet & translator David Constantine, with participation of the Lithuanian poet and translator Kornelijus Platelis
9TH NOVEMBER
Miłosz International Symposium, University College London, with participation by Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, director of the Lithuanian Institute of Literature and Folklore
As part of a major conference on ‘Polish Literature Since 1989’
