On translating and meeting Osvaldo Bossi
By: Jon Herring,
Jon Herring, part of the PTC's first Queer Digital Residency, writes on translating and meeting Argentine poet Osvaldo Bossi.
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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.
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A Few Comments on the Gender-Inclusive Language Ban in Buenos Aires, Argentina
By: Paula Galindez
Translator Paula Galindez discusses how gender-inclusive language had become widely used in Buenos Aires before being banned.
Sobre la prohibición del lenguaje inclusivo en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
By: Paula Galindez
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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Bringing together languages, ideas and people at Translating Poetries
By: Astrid Alben
The Translating Poetries Symposium sees the PTC return to SOAS were the organisation was born to take stock and forge new connections for the future.
Introducing The Sarah Maguire Prize
By: Alireza Abiz,
‘Translation of poetry is a labour of love and the Sarah Maguire Prize is our way to acknowledge and appreciate this love’ writes poet, translator and head prize judge, Alireza Abiz.
A Tale of Three Poets: Putu Oka Sukanta, Shinta Miranda, Norman Pasaribu
By: Soe Tjen Marching
The three poets translated at the PTC’s Indonesian workshop season share an urgency of expression and an outsider’s perspective, which has brought them to prominence in Indonesian.
Poet of the Camps: An Introduction to Zêdan Xelef
By: Shook,
Translator David Shook recounts his trip to visit poet and translator Zêdan Xelef at Chamishko Camp, one of the largest camps in Iraq for internally displaced people.
Interview with AK Blakemore
By: Tice Cin
Award-winning poet A K Blakemore discusses translation, technofeminism, Gurlesque poetry, the economics of being a poet and watching Love Island.
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.
Translating The World for 15 Years!
By: Erica Hesketh
On June 1st the Poetry Translation Centre will celebrate its 15th Birthday! We celebrate the poets and translators we have worked with and look on towards our future.
The PTC’s World Poet Series
By: Edward Doegar
The PTC is launching our World Poet Series, a new series of pocket-sized bilingual books, with the English and original-language text displayed side by side.
Octavia Poets Respond to Adelaide Ivánova
To celebrate the launch of Adelaide Ivánova’s ‘the hammer and other poems’ we have commissioned three poets from the Octavia collective to write a poem responding to Adelaide’s work.
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.
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