About us
The Staff
We are a small organisation; currently there are four of us working part-time from home. So we’re a virtual ‘Centre’ rather than a building you can visit. Sarah Maguire, the Director, founded the PTC in January 2004. Tom Boll, the Assistant Director, joined her nine months later and is now working as our Community Officer. Deborah Bourne, our Company Manager, began working with us in early 2007. And our new Assistant Director, Elizabeth Ingrams, started work in January 2008. The PTC was initially based at the School of Oriental & African Studies in London, but we had to leave and, thanks to Arts Council support, we’re now a flourishing independent organisation.
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Sarah Maguire, Director
Sarah Maguire founded the PTC in 2004. A distinguished British poet, she has published four poetry collections, including Spilt Milk (1991) and The Pomegranates of Kandahar (2007) and is editor of the anthology Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse (2001). Her poems have been translated into Arabic, Italian, Malayalam, Spanish, and Uzbek. She was the first writer to visit Palestine and Yemen for the British Council.
Deborah Bourne, Company Manager
Deborah Bourne is an experienced arts manager who began her career working for small scale arts organisations before moving into development and policy roles. Since going freelance in 2004, Deborah has worked on a range of projects for clients in the arts and media sectors including Skillset (Sector Skills Council for the audio visual industries), the National Film and Television School, and Channel 4.
Tom Boll, Assistant Director
Tom Boll completed his PhD on Octavio Paz and T. S. Eliot in 2005, and has taught in the departments of English, and Spanish and Latin American Studies at University College London. His translations have appeared in Kindred Spirits: Poems by Regino E. Boti (Mango; 2005) and Poetry Review. His Modernism in Translation: Octavio Paz and T.S. Eliot will be published by Legenda in 2008.
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In this section you can read about what we do as an organisation, and who we are on the staff page, and see who is involved as trustees.
Find out more about the translations process or the World Poets’ Tour here.
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