Adelaide Ivánova Interview
By: Tice Cin
‘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.
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Interview with Victoria Adukwei Bulley
By: Tice Cin
Poet, creative producer and PTC advisory board member Victoria Adukwei Bulley talks to PTC intern Tice Cin about translation and family ties.
Making Room for Possibilities: Translating Carla Diacov
By: Annie McDermott
Translator Annie McDermott has joined our poetry translation workshops to look at the work of Brazilan poet Carla Diacov. Here she considers the need to keep open different possibilities while translating.
Translating our translators
By: Edward Doegar
The Poetry Translation Centre always works through collaboration. Find out why we use the term ‘bridge-translator’ to describe the language experts we work with.
Finding a home in translation
By: Kostya Tsolákis
Kostya Tsolákis recently gave a workshop on translating LGBTQ poetry at the Poetry in Aldeburgh festival. Read about his journey from workshop attendee to facilitator.
Interview with Mary Jean Chan
By: Edward Doegar
The PTC has established a new advisory board. As part of a new series of interviews, our commissioning editor, Edward Doegar, met up with the poet Mary Jean Chan at the British Library.
So At One With You: Editing an Anthology of Somali Poetry
By: W N Herbert
W.N. Herbert, co-editor of ‘So At One With You’, an anthology of the last fifty year of Somali poetry, reflects on editing the book and his own relationship with the Somali poets he has translated.
Watch Videos of our Georgian Poets Tour
By: Bern Roche Farrelly
Watch three short videos from the Georgian Poet Tour featuring, Salome Benidze and Diana Anphimiadi, their poet-translators, the English poets Helen Mort and Jean Sprackland alongside the PTC’s Georgian translator Natalia Bukia-Peters.
Roy Hasan and the Ars Poetica movement
By: Micha Meyers
PTC guest translator Micha Meyers introduces the Israeli Ars Poetica movement, detailing the history of discrimination and denial of cultural identity that informs this new wave of Mizrachi poetry.
The PTC’s year of publishing women
By: Erica Jarnes
For International Woman’s Day Erica Jarnes writes about the PTC’s commitment to female poets & translations and explains why we are taking part in the Year Of Publishing Women.