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.

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.

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.

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.

Join writer Tice Cin and poet & translator Khairani Barokka for a workshop exploring Anglophone bias in AI poetry, part of the New Suns: A Feminist Literary Festival at the Barbican Centre.

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.

A public night of readings, performances, films and dance celebrating translating poetry beyond the page to mark the Translating Poetries Symposium organised by the PTC & SOAS.

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.

Translate Indonesian poetry from Norman Erikson Pasaribu, the author of ‘Sergius Seeks Bacchus’ with Soe Tjen Marching and poet Edward Doegar.

‘Part of the long tradition of queer Catholic writing’ Norman Erikson Pasaribu is one of most the most celebrated young writers in Indonesia

Putu Oka Sukanta is an award-winning writer, poet and filmmaker, get to know his work and discover the joy of translation at the Newham Poetry Group.

Collaboratively translate Indonesian poet Shinta Miranda with Soe Tjen Marching, Senior Lector in Indonesian at SOAS and the UK poet Edward Doegar.

Putu Oka Sukanta is an award-winning writer and filmmaker who has published six collections of poetry. Join our workshop to translate his work into English.

Join the PTC’s Commissioning Editor, the poet Edward Doegar and translator Soe Tjen Marching to look at the work of poet, editor and novelist Shinta Miranda.

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.