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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

Érica Zíngano is a Brazilan poet whose work combines poetry and performance art. Her work will be introduced by Francisco Vilhena & poet Adelaide Ivanova.

Award-winning translator Mattho Mandersloot returns a second workshop looking at the work of the Korean poet Choi Jeongrye whos work often deals with time and memory.

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.

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.

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 poet Najwan Darwish 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

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.

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.