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.
21st April
Octavia Lamb, the newly appointed Chair of the Poetry Translation Centre’s Board of Trustees, talks about her relationship with poetry and translation and looks forward to the PTC’s upcoming projects.
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.
20th May
Igbo Poetry Workshop: join our two-part online translation workshop with translator Joseph Ike on the poetry of Amarachi Attamah, Chant Performance Artist, Poet and Broadcaster.
Between the lines it’s you,
absent, but a silent presence
just as the rain is absent in the passing clouds.
There you are, absent, in every empty space
of life.…
पंक्तियों के बीच अनुपस्थित हो
तुम एक ख़ामोश पहचान
जैसे भटकते बादलों में अनुपस्थित बारिश,
तुम अनुपस्थित हो जीवन के हर रिक्त स्थान में
समय के अंतराल में
इन आतंकित गलियों में ।
मैं देखता नहीं किसी खिड़की की ओर
रुकता नहीं किसी दरवाज़े के सामने
देखता नहीं घड़ी…
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