How does the language of poetry deal with sex, trauma and the pressures of gender expectation? An evening with award-winning Brazilian poet and artist Adelaide Ivánova.

In September the PTC will run a two days symposium for translation practitioners with SOAS University of London. We are now open to expressions of interest from participants.

To round off their celebration of Refugee Awareness Week Goldsmiths English PEN are holding an exhibition and Open Mic night including a reading from Sudanese poet Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi.

Goldsmiths English PEN society and the Poetry Translation Centre are teaming up to kick off Goldsmiths Refugee Awareness Week with a night responding creatively to PTC poems.

This special evening celebrates the launch of ‘So At One with You’, an anthology of poems translated by Poetry Translation Centre and Kayd for Somali Week Festival over the last 10 years.

Join Farsi poet Azita Ghahreman and her poet-translator Maura Dooley for an event celebrating her new collection Negative of a Group Photograph, published by the Poetry Translation Centre and Bloodaxe Books.

Azita Ghahreman is in London to launch her collection Negative of a Group Photograph, published in Farsi and English by the Poetry Translation Centre and Bloodaxe Books. At this free event she will share the stage with UK-based Persian poets for an intimate evening of contemporary verse in the Persian language. Hosted by poet and translator Alireza Abiz.

Please note that readings will be in Farsi (Persian) only.

Presented in partnership by the Poetry Translation Centre and Jaleh Esfahani Foundation