Encounters with translated poetry
By: Tice Cin
Writer Tice Cin, author of ‘Keeping the House’ used to work at the Poetry Translation Centre. Here she reflects on the poems that inspired her from our archive.
Articles
On these pages you can find reviews of our translations and events; interviews with our poets and translators; blog posts; and a selection of fascinating essays on translation by some of the UK’s best known poets and translators.
Category: Blog
Diana Bellessi: Subjetividad ecológica y poética de la biodiversidad
By: Leo Boix
La experiencia de la naturaleza, ha funcionado siempre en la obra de Diana Bellessi como metáfora de la escritura feminista, de la acción política de rebelión contra la violencia y injusticia.
Diana Bellessi: Ecological Subjectivity and the Poetics of Biodiversity
By: Leo Boix
The experience of nature has always been a constant preoccupation in Bellessi’s work. It functions as a metaphor for feminist writing and for the political action of rebellion against violence.
How do you write lyrics under repressive authority?
By: Basma Abdel Aziz
Egyptians are witnessing unprecedented political oppression and now the lyrics of ‘Festival Songs’ have become the focus of a distracting media storm.
PTC YouTube Takeover Week 5: Jade Cuttle
Poet Jade Cuttle’s PTC YouTube Takeover videos are in dialogue with poems from ‘the hammer and other poems’ by Brazilian poet Adelaide Ivánova.
PTC YouTube Takeover Week 4: Tice Cin
Tice Cin is a poet and interdisciplinary artist from Tottenham, North London. Week 4 of the takeover sees Cin is making work responding to the poems in My Tenantless Body by Chinese poet Yu Yoyo.
PTC YouTube Takeover Week 3: Guido García Lueches
Week three sees Guido García Lueches talking about ‘A little body are many parts’ by Cuban poet Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, and sharing his own poems about immigration.
PTC YouTube Takeover Week 2: Destiny Adeyemi
Slambassadors 2018 Winner and member of The Octavia Poetry Collective Destiny Adeyemi digs into ‘the hammer and other poems’ by the Brazilan poet Adelaide Ivánova.
PTC YouTube Takeover Week 1: Patrizia Longhitano
Brazilian/Italian poet Patrizia Longhitano responds with creativity and humour to the work of Cuban poet Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, with playful videos, animations and even a song.
A poet reviews Cats
By: A K Blakemore
We asked the poet AK Blakemore to review ‘Cats’ the movie based on the musical, based on the incredibly dated ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ by TS Eliot. ★☆☆☆☆