Hailing from Mauritius, the small island nation off the Southeast coast of Africa that bares the linguistic legacies of both Dutch and French colonisation, Umar Timol writes poetry in a French creole that is thick with neologisms.

Pashto is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan and Poetry Translation Centre has been translating Pashto poetry at its workshops with journalist and translator Dawood Azami since 2014.

Batsheva Dori-Carlier’s poetry deals with family and relationships. Her debut book, Soul Search details the evolution of a love, from a first meeting to marriage, maturity and even couples therapy.

This special evening celebrates the launch of ‘So At One with You’, an anthology of poems translated by Poetry Translation Centre and Kayd for Somali Week Festival over the last 10 years.

Najwan Darwish is a leading voice in contemporary Arabic literature, working as a poet, journalist, editor and critic. The New York Review of Books has described him as “one of the foremost Arabic-language poets of his generation”.

Join Farsi poet Azita Ghahreman and her poet-translator Maura Dooley for an event celebrating her new collection Negative of a Group Photograph, published by the Poetry Translation Centre and Bloodaxe Books.

Azita Ghahreman is in London to launch her collection Negative of a Group Photograph, published in Farsi and English by the Poetry Translation Centre and Bloodaxe Books. At this free event she will share the stage with UK-based Persian poets for an intimate evening of contemporary verse in the Persian language. Hosted by poet and translator Alireza Abiz.

Please note that readings will be in Farsi (Persian) only.

Presented in partnership by the Poetry Translation Centre and Jaleh Esfahani Foundation

Join Farsi poet Azita Ghahreman, her poet-translator Maura Dooley and bridge translator Elhum Shakerifar for an event celebrating her new collection Negative of a Group Photograph.

Debra Yatim was born in Aceh in 1954, and currently lives in Jakarta. She is an activist, journalist, columnist, filmmaker, and founder of more than three NGOs in Indonesia.

See Farsi poet Azita Ghahreman & and her poet-translator Maura Dooley at the Manchester Literature Festival where they will be reading from Azita’s latest collection: Negative of a Group Photograph.

The Winchester Poetry Festival World Voices series continues to bring the very best in translated poetry to Winchester, featuring Maura Dooley, Azita Ghahreman, Golan Haji and Stephen Watts.

The winter season of PTC workshops is set to start with a bang as we translate Carla Diacov, an exciting young Brazilian poet and artist writing in Portuguese, with guest-translator Annie McDermott.

The PTC will be translating from the West African language Yoruba for the first time with Tọ́lá Ọ̀ṣunnúgà and discovering the work of poet, orator and linguist Taiwo Olunlade.

The Poetry Translation Centre and Birkbeck College Applied Linguistics Society are partnering up for a pizza-fueled session transcribing Arabic, Hindi, Kurdish and Urdu poetry, from useless and ugly old JPEGS into functional, searchable computer files.

Our upcoming workshop translating Arabic poet Amjad Nasser with Atef Alshaer is now fully booked. We are starting a waiting list so if you are still interested in coming to this session please get in touch.

Hebrew poet Roy Hasan says his inspiration comes from New York hip-hop, especially the Wu-Tan Clan, jazz and the films of Jarmusch and Pasolini.

The Poetry Translation Centre is excited to welcome back bridge translator David Shook who will be introducing the workshop to the work of Paraguayan poet Giselle Caputo for the first time.

Georgian poet Diana Anphimiadi and her translators Natalia Bukia-Peters and UK poet Jean Sprackland celebrate Diana’s poetry with Falmouth’s The Seven Stars Poets.

The PTC Georgian Poets Tour heads up to Neu! Reekie! Poets Helen Mort and Salome Benidze read alongside musical acts Erin Friel & Rev Magnetic.

Acclaimed poets from Georgia will read alongside British poets Jean Sprackland & Helen Mort, and discuss the art of poetry translation with their bridge translator Natalia Bukia-Peters.