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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.