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.

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.

The Poetry Translation Centre is excited to welcome back bridge translator David Shook who will be introducing the workshop to the work of Paraguayan poet Giselle Caputo for the first time.

Hebrew poet Roy Hasan says his inspiration comes from New York hip-hop, especially the Wu-Tan Clan, jazz and the films of Jarmusch and Pasolini.

Our upcoming workshop translating Arabic poet Amjad Nasser with Atef Alshaer is now fully booked. We are starting a waiting list so if you are still interested in coming to this session please get in touch.

The PTC will be translating from the West African language Yoruba for the first time with Tọ́lá Ọ̀ṣunnúgà and discovering the work of poet, orator and linguist Taiwo Olunlade.

The winter season of PTC workshops is set to start with a bang as we translate Carla Diacov, an exciting young Brazilian poet and artist writing in Portuguese, with guest-translator Annie McDermott.