Poetry Translation Centre to celebrate 20th birthday with a year-long programme supported by Arts Council England
Poetry Translation Centre to celebrate 20th birthday with a year-long programme supported by Arts Council England
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Introduction
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.
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Summer Workshops at The Albany
Join the PTC in The Albany, Deptford this Summer for a new season of in-person workshops translating from Vietnamese, Spanish, Hebrew & Arabic poetry.
A Few Comments on the Gender-Inclusive Language Ban in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Translator Paula Galindez discusses how gender-inclusive language had become widely used in Buenos Aires before being banned.
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Translate Vietnamese poetry by Linh San with Phuong Anh Nguyen
Join us to translate the prose poem 'on a species of bird that doesn’t fly away' by Vietnamese poet Linh San with Phương Anh Nguyen.
Translate Spanish poetry from Nicaragua by Carola Brantome with Helen Dixon
Join activist, academic, poet and translator Helen Dixon to translate Carola Brantome, an award-winning feminist poet from Nicaragua.
Translate Hebrew poetry by Batsheva Dori with Micha Myers
Batsheva Dori writes poetry about family and relationships. Join us to translate her work with the translator Micha Meyers.
Translating Arabic poetry by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi with Bajalan and Shook
Translating lyric poems of exile and connection by Sudanses poet Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi with his translators Bajalan and Shook.
In Place of Memory
British-Ukrainian poet Charlotte Shevchenko Knight talks about the role of poetry in the preservation of collective memory that is vital to Ukraine’s survival.
Featured Poem
The city goes on sleeping/awake
The city goes on sleeping/awakewith the lights onits street-lights, fountains, statueswith all its circuits workingand the sea.The metro doesn't move a metre.Only the buses sleepwalkslow, circularwith no need of direction:they…A cidade vai dormindo/acordada
A cidade vai dormindo/acordadacom a luz acesados postes, repuxos, estátuascom todos os sinais funcionandoe o mar.O metrô não avança nenhum metro.Só os ônibus sonambulamlentos, circularessem precisar de direçãopois conhecem o…
The city goes on sleeping/awake
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