Three exciting poetry collections from the PTC this year: Real by Karin Karakaşlı (tr. Canan Marasligil and Sarah Howe), The Thorn of Your Name by Víctor Terán (tr. Shook), and Translation of the Route by Laura Wittner (tr. Juana Adcock).
Throughout 2024, the Poetry Translation Centre is celebrating its 20th birthday with a jam-packed programme of events, workshops, publications and prizes.
Catch the poets and translators of our World Poet Series titles this year at Shubbak Festival, Ledbury Festival, the British Library, the Southbank Centre and more!
The Poetry Translation Centre is thrilled to announce the next titles in our World Poet Series, by poets Mona Kareem and Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, and translators Sara Elkamel, Bryar Bajalan and Shook!
Zêdan Xelef is a poet and translator based in Sulaimani, Iraqi Kurdistan who forced to leave his home in the Shingal Mountains to escape the genocide of the Êzîdî community.
Translator David Shook recounts his trip to visit poet and translator Zêdan Xelef at Chamishko Camp, one of the largest camps in Iraq for internally displaced people.
Tom Boll introduces the work of the three distinguished Mexican poets, Coral Bracho, David Huerta and Victor Teran, each of whom ‘offers a distinctive version of what it means to live in Mexico today’.