beautiful naked coyotées / belles coyotes desnudes
Queer poetry in translation from Argentina and the UK, with readings in Spanish and English and a Q&A with Leo Boix.
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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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Poetry Translation Centre to celebrate 20th birthday with a year-long programme supported by Arts Council England
Poetry Translation Centre to celebrate 20th birthday with a year-long programme supported by Arts Council England
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.
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beautiful naked coyotées / belles coyotes desnudes
Queer poetry in translation from Argentina and the UK, with readings in Spanish and English and a Q&A with Leo Boix.
Hassaniya Arabic Poetry by Saharawi poet Zaim Allal
Translating the work of Zaim Allal, a famous Saharawi poet who is living in a refugee camp in Algeria, with…
An overview of community feminisms in Latin America
Translation can help a positive mutual contagion of “dangerous” critical feminist politics and dissident sexualities reach beyond Latin America.
Sobre la prohibición del lenguaje inclusivo en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Durante los últimos diez años, el lenguaje inclusivo de género se ha vuelto más utilizado en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, pero ahora ha sido prohibido.
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The city goes on sleeping/awake
The city goes on sleeping/awakewith the lights onits street-lights, fountains, statueswith all its circuits workingand the sea.The metro doesn't move a metre.Only the buses sleepwalkslow, circularwith no need of direction:they…A cidade vai dormindo/acordada
A cidade vai dormindo/acordadacom a luz acesados postes, repuxos, estátuascom todos os sinais funcionandoe o mar.O metrô não avança nenhum metro.Só os ônibus sonambulamlentos, circularessem precisar de direçãopois conhecem o…
The city goes on sleeping/awake
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