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

The final reading of our three wonderful Persian poets and their UK poet-translators took place at Ledbury Poetry Festival.

Our three Persian poets and their poet-translators received a very warm welcome for their only reading in Scotland at Edinburgh Central Library.

The only London reading for our three Persian poets was sold out: more than 100 people came to hear Azita Ghahreman, Reza Mohammadi and Shakila Azizzada read with their translators, Maura Dooley and Nick Laird

Azita Ghahreman, Reza Mohammadi and Shakila Azizzada read alongside their UK poet-translators, Maura Dooley, Nick Laird and Mimi Khalvati at a Saturday afternoon reading at Cardiff Central Library.

Back by popular demand, the first event of our Persian Poets’ Tour of 2013 sees all three poets read alongside their poet-translators at the Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester.

One of the final events of Poetry Parnassus was a PTC Celebration Reading featuring Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, David Shook, Jo Shapcott, Mimi Khalvati, Reza Mohammadi, Ribka Sibhatu and Clare Pollard.

The final event of our Persian Poets’ Tour saw Azita Ghahreman and Reza Mohammadi Read with Maura Dooley and Nick Laird at Asia House as part of the Festival of Asian Literature

An enthusiastic, capacity audience heard two leading Afghan poets, Shakila Azizzada and Reza Mohammadi, read alongside their poet-translators, Mimi Khalvati and Nick Laird, while Sarah Maguire read her translations of Partaw Naderi’s poems.

The culmination of our fabulous Persian Poets’ Tour was this Gala Reading at London’s Rich Mix featured the poetry of all five Persian Poets read by their five British poet-translators.

Reza Mohammadi, Azita Ghahreman and Shakila Azizzada read at The Wordsworth Trust with British poets, Nick Laird, Mimi Khalvati and Jo Shapcott, who read her translations of Farzaneh Khojandi.

Three Persian Poets read at the wonderful Persian shop, Persepolis in Peckham, with tea and cakes to hand. An unmissable chance to stock up on barberries and dried limes and listen to some fabulous poetry!

Three Persian poets read at the Pomegranate Restaurant in Manchester. A unique opportunity to hear wonderful poetry in an intimate setting coupled with fabulous food.

A chance to hear the poetry of five Persian Poets read and translated by some of the UK’s leading poets at The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea

West London is home to many Persian-speaking people and so we were delighted that our first reading of the tour, featuring three Persian poets, took place at the Mosaic Rooms

The fabulous launch party for our Persian Poets’ Tour took place at the October Gallery on a beautiful May evening.

Leading Afghan poet, Reza Mohammadi, joined us for a workshop on his poems with his translator Hamid Kabir in the run-up to our Persian Poets’ Tour in May.

Leading Afghan poet, Reza Mohammadi, joins us for a workshop on his poems with his translator Hamid Kabir in the run-up to our Persian Poets’ Tour in May.

The South Bank Centre, in association with English PEN and the Poetry Translation Centre, presents a selection of poets and musicians from both refugee and international backgrounds.

An Afghan Literary Cafe in partnership with Free Word and the Dutch Foundation for Literature.