Featured Poems
Spring Is Coming
written by Farzaneh Khojandi
translated by Jo Shapcott
What does exile taste like, my darling,
what is it to know loneliness?
Can Someone Bring Me My Entire Being?
written by Noshi Gillani
translated by Lavinia Greenlaw
Can someone bring me my entire being?
My arms, my eyes, my face?
Small Fox
written by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
translated by Sarah Maguire
Suddenly - a small fox, playful,
floods your wounded heart with joy
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Welcome
Welcome to The Poetry Translation Centre’s website. We’re a small organisation dedicated to translating contemporary poetry from Africa, Asia and Latin America. To date, we've translated 159 poems by 44 poets from 21 countries written in 19 different languages. On our website you'll find poems in translation and in their original languages, recordings of readings, photos and videos of our events, and information about what we do and how we translate.
News
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01/07/2009
Workshop on Zapotec Poetry by Victor de la Cruz with David Shook
The American poet and translator, David Shook, is visiting the PTC to lead a workshop on translating the poetry of Víctor de la Cruz from Oaxaca in Mexico who writes in Isthmus Zapotec.
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17/06/2009
Indian Poet Mohan Rana Visits the PTC
We were delighted that the leading Indian poet, Mohan Rana, joined us for a workshop on translating his poems from Hindi, led by his translator, Lucy Rosenstein, on 3rd June. We also translated another of his poems in our workshop on 17th June.
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21/04/2009
New Recordings of Poems by Farzaneh Khojandi, Noshi Gillani and Kajal Ahmad
You can now listen to Farzaneh Khojandi's poems in Tajik and her translations read by Jo Shapcott; Noshi Gillani's translations read by Lavinia Greenlaw and her poems read in Urdu by Kamila Shamsie;and Kajal Ahmad's poems read in Kurdish by Choman Hardi and in English by Mimi Khalvati.
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