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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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.
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.
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.
Remembering Sarah Maguire
By: Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi,
Last November the poet, and founder of the Poetry Translation Centre, Sarah Maguire died. Her friend, the poet Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, wrote this obituary for her in the Arabic newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
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.
Translator Natalia Bukia-Peters looks back at our Georgian Poets Tour.
By: Natalia Bukia-Peters,
Bridge translator Natalia Bukia-Peters looks back at her history with the PTC from attending her first workshop to translating Salome Benidze and Diana Anphimiadi for our recent Georgian Poets Tour.
Diana Anphimiadi on being a translated poet.
By: Diana Anphimiadi,
Read Georgian poet Diana Anphimiadi’s describes the experience of being a translated poet ‘Travelling in a different linguistic reality ... some kind of parallel reality, where another Diana Anphimiadi lives, writes and tells her readers about the most personal things. ‘
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