Karin Karakașlı's highly cinematic poems are powered by music, metaphor and a fascination for the mechanics of language itself. This new selection brings together poems from Karakașlı’s 15-year career, vividly translated into English by translator and writer Canan Marașligil working with British poet Sarah Howe.
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Víctor Terán has been described as the most 'personal' poet of the Zapotec Isthmus of Oaxaca, Mexico. His poems, highly lyrical and imagistic, explore two deep passions: the electricity that passes between bodies in love, and Terán's fierce devotion to the Indigenous land and language of his birth.
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Translation of the Route is the eleventh collection by the award-winning Argentine poet and translator Laura Wittner. In poems that are precise, frank and finely tuned, Wittner explores the specificities of parental and familial love, life after marriage, and the re-ignition of the self in middle age.
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The PTC’s first craft book, written by authors and translators from around the world, Living in Language brings together reflections on the craft and purpose of poetry, by 21 leading poets from around the world.
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A gloriously diverse, revelatory selection of translations from the first ten years of the Poetry Translation Centre. 111 brilliant poems translated from 27 different languages, ranging from Arabic to Zapotec, with all the original scripts included.
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Get three of our most recent Arabic/English dual-language poetry books, an A6 notebook and a set of 12 postcards.
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Get the full collection of poetry books published through the PTC and Bloodaxe Books collaboration. These editions look lovely together on a bookshelf.
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Get four random pamphlets and dip your toes into the world of poetry in translation from some of the very best.
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Sponsor the gift of world poetry to a school, prison or institution of your choice.
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The PTC's first zine: a collection of poems from our seven UNDERTOW Nigeria poets, including their collaborative poem 'Our country is a metaphor'.
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Mona Kareem is a stateless poet, born in Kuwait, whose work has been internationally acclaimed for its power and immediacy. This collection, translated into English by poet and translator Sara Elkamel, offers an overview of Kareem’s 20-year poetry career, in English, for the first time, as part of the World Poet Series.
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Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi is one of the foremost Sudanese poets writing today, and is a leading figure in African Arabic poetry. This latest collection is translated by Bryar Bajalan and Shook.
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Hindi poet Mohan Rana’s poetry explores the topics of identity, truth, memory and nature, this collection features translations by Lucy Rosenstein working with Bernard O’Donoghue
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‘Embrace’ by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, showcases the variety and force of his lyric talent with new translations by Atef Alshear working with the poet Paul Batchelor.
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Award-winning poet Adelaide Ivánova’s unsettling work considers both sexualised violence and consensual sex, brilliantly translated by the poet Rachel Long and Francisco Vilhena.
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