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