At the Poetry Translation Centre’s first ever Tamil workshop we will be translating the work of Latha with Shash Trevett, a Tamil from Sri Lanka who came to the UK to escape from the civil war.

Guest-translator Annie McDermott returns for a second session to translate more work by Carla Diacov, an exciting young Brazilian poet and artist writing in Portuguese

This workshop on Arabic poets Najwan Darwish & Ibrahim Nasrallah will be introduced by returning guest translator Atef Alshaer who has led a number of our recent workshops on Arabic poetry.

Translate Korean poet Choi Jeongrye who writes about time, memory and loneliness. Our guest translator at this workshop will be Mattho Mandersloot is a translator from Amsterdam

Translate Tuareg poet and author Hawad with André Naffis-Sahely. He was born in the Aïr region of Niger and currently lives France. His themes include thirst, wandering, anarchy, and Tuareg politics.

For the first workshop in our new season we are delighted to welcome back poet and translator Alireza Abiz who will be introducing the PTC workshop to the Persian Perian poet Shooka Hosseini.

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.