In September the PTC will run a two days symposium for translation practitioners with SOAS with a keynote talk by poet and translator Mamta Sagar and an in-conversation event with poet Abdilatif Abdalla.

A public night of readings, performances, films and dance celebrating translating poetry beyond the page to mark the Poetry Translations Centre’s Translating Poetries Symposium at SOAS.

Join campaigner and journalist Lola Olufemi for an afternoon unpicking the ideas and history of ‘Decolonisation’ and looking at practical steps to bring positive change to Deptford.

Share poetry from any or many languages at the PTC’s first Polylingual Open Mic, the stage is open to anyone to read poems in the language or languages of their choice.

Chinese Poet Yu Yoyo and her translators Dave Haysom the UK poet AK Blakemore read from Yu Yoyo’s book ‘My Tenantless Body’ and Blakemore’s award-winning collection ‘Fondue’.

A celebration of Chinese Literature with a bilingual reading from Yu Yoyo, and her translators Dave Haysom and poet A.K. Blakemore and Q&A with Jeremy Tiang, the translator of Li Er’s most recent novel.