Featured Events
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Caasha Luul Muhamud Yusuf and Clare Pollard at Off the Shelf in Sheffield
Somali Poets' Tour 2011, Saturday 29th October 2011
Leading Somali poet, Caasha Luul Mohamud Yusuf, reads alongside poet and translator, Clare Pollard, for the very first time.
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Somali Week Festival 2011 Women's Evening
Somali Poets' Tour 2011, Wednesday 26th October 2011
A special celebration of the vital role played by Somali women, especially poets and artists, in promoting peace and development with poet Saado Cabdi Amarre and Sarah Maguire
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Somali Week Festival 2011 Launch
Somali Poets' Tour 2011, Saturday 22nd October 2011
The Somali Week Festival 2011 will be launched with a spectacular series of readings by visiting poets Jaamac Kadiye Cilmi, Saado Cabdi Amarre and Axmed Shiikh Jaamac.
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Mohan Rana and Bernard O'Donoghue at the Ledbury Festival
Mohan Rana Chapbook Tour 2011, Saturday 2nd July 2011
Mohan Rana and Bernard O'Donoghue read together at the Ledbury Festival.
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Afghan Literary Cafe
Thursday 31st March 2011
An Afghan Literary Cafe in partnership with Free Word and the Dutch Foundation for Literature.
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Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi at the Petrie Museum, London
Two African Poets 2010, Thursday 29th July 2010
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi read alongside his translator Sarah Maguire at the Petrie Museum, London.
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Coral Bracho, David Huerta and Victor Teran at the Cervantes Institute, London
Mexican Poets' Tour 2010, Thursday 15th April 2010
Coral Bracho, David Huerta and Víctor Terán read alongside their poet-translators Katherine Pierpoint, Jamie McKendrick and David Shook.
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Mexican Poets' Tour Launch Party
Mexican Poets' Tour 2010, Wednesday 14th April 2010
Our Mexican Poets' Tour was launched with a fabulous party at The Photographers' Gallery in Central London.
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The World Poets' Tour at Dove Cottage: Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Sarah Maguire and Sabry Hafez
World Poets' Tour 2008, Saturday 25th October 2008
A talk by Sabry Hafez on Wordsworth in Arabic translation was followed by a reading by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi and Sarah Maguire
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Gala Readings: Poetry in Seven Languages at the British Library
World Poets' Tour 2008, Saturday 18th October 2008
The Gala Reading at the British Library was an unprecdented literary event featuring the poems of six international poets read in translation by six leading British poets.
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Gaarriye and W N Herbert at the Bluecoat Centre in Liverpool
World Poets' Tour 2008, Tuesday 14th October 2008
Readings by Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac 'Gaarriye' and W.N.Herbert
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Reception at the House of Lords
World Poets' Tour 2008, Thursday 9th October 2008
Lord Victor Adebowale hosted a reception to celebrate the World Poets' Tour at the House of Lords.
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World Poets' Tour 2008 Launch Party
World Poets' Tour 2008, Monday 6th October 2008
We launched our World Poets' Tour with a fabulous party at the October Gallery in London.
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World Poets' Tour 2005, London: Men's Night
World Poets' Tour 2005, Thursday 13th October 2005
Gaarriye, Partaw Naderi and Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, gave a reading of their poetry at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS as part of the WPT.
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World Poets' Tour 2005, London: Women's Night
World Poets' Tour 2005, Wednesday 12th October 2005
Poets Toeti Heraty, Gagan Gill and Coral Bracho read their poetry for the WPT Women's Night at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS.
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World Poets' Tour 2005 Launch Party
World Poets' Tour 2005, Tuesday 4th October 2005
The PTC's World Poets' Tour was launched with a brilliant party at The October Gallery.
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International Poets Meet for the First Time
World Poets' Tour 2005, Sunday 2nd October 2005
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Partaw Naderi and Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac 'Gaarriye' met for the first time at the start of the PTC's first World Poets' Tour in 2005
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