How does the language of poetry deal with sex, trauma and the pressures of gender expectation? An evening with award-winning Brazilian poet and artist Adelaide Ivánova.

Brazilan poet Adelaide Ivanova and her poet-translator Rachel Long will appear alongside Korean poet Kim Hyesoon and Korean-American poet and translator Don Mee at the Newcastle Poetry Festival’s annual translated poetry event.

Empowering conversation and beautiful poetry from Brazilian poet, activist and artist Adelaide Ivánova and her translator Rachel Young for a dual language reading of poems from ‘The Hammer and other poems.’

In September the PTC will run a two days symposium for translation practitioners with SOAS University of London. We are now open to expressions of interest from participants.

To round off their celebration of Refugee Awareness Week Goldsmiths English PEN are holding an exhibition and Open Mic night including a reading from Sudanese poet Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi.

Goldsmiths English PEN society and the Poetry Translation Centre are teaming up to kick off Goldsmiths Refugee Awareness Week with a night responding creatively to PTC poems.