Poetry Translation Centre

About the World Tour 2008

We’re in the early stages of planning our next World Poets’ Tour, scheduled to take place in October/November this year. In order to consolidate their literary reputations and to strengthen links with their communities, our Sudanese and Somali poets are returning to the UK. Joining them will be poets from Cape Verde, Kurdistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Again, all of them are being co-translated by well-known British poets.

2008 Participating Poets

• Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
• Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac 'Gaarriye'
• Corsino Fortes
• Kajal Ahmad
• Farzaneh Khojandi
• Noshi Gillani

About the World Tour 2005

In October 2005, we organised a ground-breaking tour of six leading international poets from Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Somaliland and Sudan to venues throughout the UK. They read alongside their co-translators – six distinguished UK poets – thus attracting audiences of British poetry lovers, as well as enthusiastic responses from the poets’ communities. The tour was an astonishing and often very moving success.

Browse through the press coverage of the World Poets’ Tour 2005 in our reviews section.

2005 Participating Poets

• Partaw Naderi
• Coral Bracho
• Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
• Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac 'Gaarriye'
• Gagan Gill
• Toeti Heraty

2005 Sponsors

• Arts Council England
• British Council Afghanistan
• British Council Sudan
• Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia
• Mexican Embassy
• Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, México
• SOAS
• Sudanese Organisations