The Poetry Translation Centre gives the best contemporary poems from Africa, Asia and Latin America a new life in the English language, working with diaspora communities for whom poetry is of great importance.
20th June
This week’s poem is ‘The Evening News and the Roof of the World’ by Mohan Rana from India. The poem is read first in English translation by Bernard O’Donoghue and then in Hindi by Mohan himself.
18th June
‘I think that activists have a connection to poetry that felt healthy’ Brazilian poet Adelaide Ivánova talks about her poetry and political activism and her admiration for young poets.
4th June
Yu Yoyo is a Chinese poet seen as a representative voice of the post-'90's generation. She will be touring the UK with the Poetry Translation Centre in July this year.
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