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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.
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Late Winter Poetry Translation Workshops 2023
As the world seems to quake with crisis and division we look to poetry and transition to open up windows of understanding and connection.
Build Your Own Chapbook Bundle
Populate your bookshelf with some awesome bilingual poetry titles from a huge range of poets writing in a variety of languages!
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Remembering David Huerta (1949 – 2022)
Jamie McKendrick and Tom Boll reflect on the time they spent with David Huerta during the PTC's 2010 Mexican Poets Tour.
RARG Pt 4 - Decolonising and community feminisms in Latin America
Explore decolonising and community feminist theory and methodologies from Latin America with queer feminist activist & writer Helen Dixon.
Translating Brazilian poet and activist Érica Zíngano
Join in the translation of this witty Portuguese poem that bites back at history and language by Brazilian writer Érica Zíngano.
More poems by Armenian Turkish poet Karin Karakaşlı
Literary translator Canan Marasligil pops in for an online workshop translating new poetry by Armenian Turkish poet Karin Karakaşlı.
New Farsi poetry from Iran with Elhum Shakerifar
Poetry is an important part of daily life in Iran. Join translator and film producer Elhum Shakerifar to translate a new Farsi poet.
Featured Poem
This Day Our Daily Dog
It’s as if the plastic bagshad become the sofa’s latest outfitbecause why remember the deadand gather dust in the houseThe cobwebs emigrateand the ants carry ontaking the last crumb froma…El perro nuestro de cada día
Es como si las bolsas de plásticose hubiesen puesto de moda para los mueblesporque para qué recordar a los muertosy juntar polvo en la casaLas telarañas emigrany las hormigas hacen…
This Day Our Daily Dog
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