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• News 13/10/2008 Chapbooks published

  To coincide with the 2008 World Poets' Tour we have published a boxed set of ten dual-language chapbooks introducing the international poets who have visited the UK for our tours in 2005 and 2008.

• News 07/09/2008 World Poets' Tour 2008

  Following the extraordinary success of the first World Poets’ Tour in 2005, the Poetry Translation Centre has organised its second World Poets’ Tour which begins on Sunday 7th September at the Bristol Poetry Festival.

• Workshop 11/06/2008 Workshop on Tajik Poetry: Farzaneh Khojandi, 11th June

  For the third in our series of workshops concerning our upcoming World Poets' Tour, we were joined by Jo Shapcott and Narguess Farzad for a fascinating discussion about their translations of poems by Farzaneh Khojandi from Tajikistan.

• Workshop 28/05/2008 Workshop on Sudanese Poetry with Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi

  This special workshop that the Sudanese poet, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, attended with his translators, Sarah Maguire and Sabry Hafez, gave us a unique insight into his poetry.

• Workshop 14/05/2008 Workshop on Turkish Poetry 14th May

  In this workshop we translated a poem by Lale Müldür, one of Turkey's leading contemporary poets.

• Workshop 30/04/2008 Workshop on Kurdish Poetry: Kajal Ahmad, 30th April

  In the first of our special workshops introducing the six poets who'll be coming to the UK in October for our World Poets' Tour, we discussed the poetry of Kajal Ahmad from Kurdistan with her co-translators, Mimi Khalvati and Choman Hardi.

• Workshop 16/04/2008 Workshop on Pashto Poetry 16th April

  In our last workshop we translated two short poems by two poets from Afghanistan, Pir Muhammad Karwaan and Parween Faiz-Zadah Malaal, who write in Pashto.

• Workshop 02/04/2008 Workshop on Israeli Poetry: Tuvya Ruebner (2)

  We translated three more poems by the Israeli poet, Tuvya Ruebner, in our workshop on 2nd April.

• News 31/03/2008 We're Now a Registered Charity

  We're delighted to announce that The Poetry Translation Centre is now a Registered Charity.

• Workshop 19/03/2008 Workshop on Israeli Poetry: Tuvya Ruebner (1)

  We translated three poems from Hebrew by the prize-winning Israeli poet, Tuvya Ruebner, in our workshop on 19th March.

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