Hari Rajaledchumy introduces us to the work of Sugan, a Sri Lankan Tamil poet who emerged as a key figure within the exiled Eelam Tamil dissent ‘little magazine’ culture in the 80s and 90s.

Join linguist Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún to discover the work of Túbọ̀sún Ọládàpọ̀, the busy Yorùbá poet and award winning theatre maker who also works as a broadcaster and runs a record label.

Translate Bengali poet, and avowed Marxist, Nirmalendu Goon, whose accessible poetry is fiercely critical of the nouveau riche and calls for the masses to rise up against the nouveau riche.

Join translator Kendel Hippolyte for the Poetry Translation Centre’s first ever Kwéyòl poetry workshop, looking at the work of the award winning poet Kwéyòl poet Liz Faisal.

Part of our ongoing series where we translate work selected by our touring poets, join Legna Rodríguez Iglesias and translator Serafina Vick to discover new Latin American poetry.

The PTC returns for a third workshop translating the work of Carla Diacov, a Brazilian poet and artist who writes plain spoken poems loaded with humour and wild juxtapositions.

We are delighted to invite the translator Delaina Haslam back for another workshop translating the work of Umar Timol, a Mauritian poet who writes in a Dutch inflected French creole.

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.

Learn more about Chinese poetry and language at this workshop with Chinese poet Yu Yoyo, a young voice in contemporary Chinese poetry, and translator Dave Haysom. No experience necessary!

Presented by Manchester Metropolitan University in partnership with the Poetry Translation Centre, spend an evening hearing one of the most important young voices in contemporary Chinese poetry.

Poets Yu Yoyo and her translators A.K. Blakemore and Dave Haysom read from ‘My Tenantless Body’ and Colin Herd responds to translated text in The Annotated Reader.

This workshop is part of a new initiative at the PTC to invite our touring poets and translators to introduce us to new writers from their culture that have inspired them.

Celebrated Sichuanese poet Yu Yoyo reads from her new book, My Tenantless Body, published by the Poetry Translation Centre, alongside her poet translator A.K. Blakemore.

Join Yu Yoyo, one of the most important young voices in contemporary Chinese poetry, for an evening of bilingual readings in Chinese and English, alongside Liverpool poet Jennifer Lee Tsai and translator Dave Haysom.

An evening of poetry, music and fine whisky as five musicians respond live to dual language Chinese & English readings by Yu Yoyo and AK Blakemore paired with Kavalan Whisky

David Huerta is a leading Mexican poet and the PTC is delighted to be returning to translate more of his work with the help of guest-translator Adam Feinstein.

Kishwar Naheed is one of the best known feminist poets of Pakistan. We will be translating her poetry from Urdu with teh poet and translator Sascha Aurora Akhtar.

A dual language English & Portuguese poetry event with Brazilian poet, activist and artist Adelaide Ivánova and her translator Rachel Long, with readings from Local poets,

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.’