The Poetry Translation Centre gives the best contemporary poems from Africa, Asia and Latin America a new life in the English language, working with diaspora communities for whom poetry is of great importance.
Join poet and translator Leo Boix this Autumn for a series of online poetry translation workshops celebrating poetry from Saudi Arabia, Georgia, Iran, and Peru. There is no need to know the language being translated…
Jon Herring, part of the PTC's first Queer Digital Residency, writes on translating and meeting Argentine poet Osvaldo Bossi.
Translator Paula Galindez discusses how gender-inclusive language had become widely used in Buenos Aires before being banned.
Haifa Aljabri is a poet and translator from Saudi Arabia, who has published several poetry collections and received the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Prize for Arabic Poetry.
Bela Chekurishvili is a Georgian poet and journalist. Her poetry depicts everyday life: from lumberjacks to prostitutes, housewives to refugees.
Quechua poet Raúl Cisneros comes from a peasant community in Ayacucho Peru. He is an activist, teacher, theatre maker and musician who works with communities in the Amazon.
Farzaneh Ghavami's poetry reflects her lived experience as a woman living and working under a dictatorship system that suppresses women and femininity.
The Poetry Translation Centre works with leading poets and translators to share poetry from around the world with people across the UK. If you have read and enjoyed one of our poems please support us by making a donation today.