With translations from the Spanish by Leo Boix A LETTER FROM URSULA K LE GUIN She wrote me letters about my books, funny, crazy, fascinating letters I had to answer. We wrote back and forth. She made my letters crazy too, and I loved writing her. That was fun, that was easy. All words. […]
The Latinx Creatives Workshop was set up as part of the PTC’s 20th Birthday Celebrations for Latinx people interested in learning more about translation. The PTC teamed up with Un Nuevo Sol to run a set of workshops translating Spanish, Portuguese and Quechua into English and Spanish into English as a way of exploring and […]
Marina Sánchez is a mix of Indigenous Mexican, Spanish and British origins. She is an award-winning poet and translator, widely published in literary journals including The Shop, Artemis, South Bank, Acumen, Obsessed with Pipework, The Reader magazine and online, Anima Press, Second Light, Save As Writers, Scintilla, Magma, Stand, Poetry News, La Tundra, Nutshell, Morning […]
Imagine the hands holding the pieces that have shattered; the attention that cleans, witnesses and attends to the breaks. How would the fragments feel as liquid glue is applied? Then, when dry, the brush lighting up the joins with powdered gold. I see mine gleaming like a stream across my belly, after the ectopic that […]
Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and comic book writer based in London. Her writing has been featured on BBC radio and television, and her full poetry collections are Bear (Bloodaxe, 2017) and Low (Bloodaxe, 2021). She edits the online poetry journal Perverse, and has run numerous workshops over the years. She has an Italian […]
Pẹ̀lúmi Obasaju is a Nigerian-British scientist and storyteller who brings poetry into the day-to-day. An experienced performer, she has been commissioned for several projects including an AR candle with New York based Spoken Flames, the consecration of the first black bishop of the Diocese of London, and The Royal African Society 120th Anniversary Gala. Her […]
Rahma O. Jimoh is a winner of the Poetry Translation, Lagos-London competition. She is a participant in the Undertow Writing workshop and has been published or has works forthcoming in Salt Hill Journal, Isele Magazine, Parentheses Art, Ake Review, Tinderbox Poetry, Olongo Africa, Lucent Dreaming, Agbowo, Tab Journal, Brittle Paper, Kalahari Review & others. She […]
Isaiah Adepoju is a retired Nigerian. He’s a fellow of Ebedi International Writers Residency, UNDERTOW Poetry fellowship, London, and Imodoye Writers Residency. His debut novel is forthcoming from Abibiman UK this year. His poems have been longlisted for 2023 Alphine Fellowship Poetry Prize, and won the 2022 Lagos-London Poetry Prize. Isaiah Adepoju was part of […]
Sodïq Oyèkànmí (he/him) is a poet, thespian and librarian. A 2022/23 Poetry Translation Centre (UK) UNDERTOW Cohort. He holds a B.A in Theatre Arts from the University of Ibadan where he specialised in Acting & Dramaturgy. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, he won the 2022 Lagos / London Poetry Competition. […]
Iheoma J. Uzomba is the Editor of The Muse Journal No. 50 (A Journal of Creative and Critical Writing, UNN). She is a spoken word artist and performance poet. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming on Rattle Magazine, Palette Poetry, The Shore Poetry, Chestnut Review, Isele Magazine, The Rising Phoenix Review and elsewhere. […]