So good to finally have the Poetry Translation Centre (Poetry Translation Centre) at London Met Uni yesterday to talk all things poetry and translation to our translation students.

🗣️Shout out to Bern for spending the afternoon with us! #xl8 #poetry #translation

Am working with Poetry Translation Centre as they celebrate their 20th anniversary. A few weeks ago had the privilege of creating a collective translation - with a good deal of help from Elhum Shakerifar of this beautiful poem by Parinaz Fahimi from the original Farsi. Cinnamon.

This will be #BSLinterpreted so book now!

Just 1 place left for this Poetry Translation workshop! And free tickets can be booked for Translation and Displacement (including live stream tickets): lyrafest.com

The PTC is at @lyrafest this year! Join us on Saturday, 20th April for An Introduction to Translating Poetry writing workshop with Ibrahim Hirsi and @Helen_Bowell.

Tickets here: bit.ly/3TJXqiB

Join us at @lyrafest on Saturday, 20th April for a free afternoon of poetry by Sudanese, Somali, Argentine and Palestinian poets, headlined by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi!

Book here: bit.ly/3VNSU5s

It's not yet #LivingWageWeek , but we're proud to say that this week IS the PTC's 8th anniversary of being an accredited London Living Wage employer! 🙌

We're super stoked to be attending The Poetry Society
FREE VERSE Poetry Book and Magazine Fair! Come and say hi, look at our wares and find your next favourite read. 20 April, St Columba’s, SW1X 0BD. Free entry! poetrysociety.org.uk/projects/free-… ❤️

Tickets now on sale for Newcastle Poetry Festival - including two Poetry Translation Centre events! We're doing the next of our hybrid livestream events with Tblisi, Georgia, and a workshop. P.S. Thrilled that our event is followed by a State of Play gig, ft. some of my absolute faves❤️

Dy Bennod Nesaf – Your Next Chapter, the new programme of tutored courses and retreats Literature Wales has begun!

From songwriting to storytelling, there’s a course for everyone at Tŷ Newydd in 2024.

To find out more, click here: buff.ly/4aauozI

Deadline extended! You have until 23:59 (BST) on Sun 14th April 2024 to apply to the Multilingual Poetry course at #BCLT2024 Summer School 💫💫💫 More details on how to submit, bursaries and programme here 👉👉👉 uea.ac.uk/groups-and-cen…

🤓Newcastle Poetry Festival programme is now live! 📚Our theme ‘In/Out of Place’ has a special focus on local places in the region. Please join us 9-11 May for readings, workshops, panels, commissions & schools events. Tickets go on sale April 4! #NPFP24

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As we come into spring, we remember Sarah Maguire on her birthday today with this beautiful poem by Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf, translated by Maxamed Xasan ‘Alto’ and the poetry translation workshop Sarah had facilitated.

‘When the spring rains come…’

🌺 bit.ly/3xjE4sR 🌻

Announcement! The Stephen Spender Prize will open for submissions on 1 May

and this year’s Spotlight is on #Portuguese !

#SSTPoetryPrize2024 #Portuguese Spotlight
stephen-spender.org/stephen-spende…

Thank you so much to everyone who came to our book launch last night at National Centre for Writing for our new anthology Living in Language, and to the incredible Yang Lian, Brian Holton and Mohan Rana for their beautiful readings!

TONIGHT! ✨ Join us in person or via livestream for a bilingual evening of poetry with Azita Ghahreman, one of Iran’s leading poets, and her translators Elhum Shakerifar and Maura Dooley Poetry Translation Centre 📚 buff.ly/43gvEhW

Don't miss this FREE ONLINE event tonight!

We are trialling a new format for our 20th bday: two events in two countries, livestreaming to each other AND online!

We'll evaluate this format and report back to the industry at the end of the year.

Tickets: bit.ly/4a3YxRa

Legendary Misty Poet Yang Lian says happy #WorldPoetryDay ✨

He's in the UK for tonight's Poetry Translation Centre launch of LIVING IN LANGUAGE, the PTC's first prose anthology, a collection of essays on being a poet from 21 international voices. Come to National Centre for Writing at 7 tonight...

Happy #WorldPoetryDay !

📚We’ve been exploring the globe through our recent poetry selections from Benin to Sri Lanka and Russia with our Spring Translation Choice: Maria Stepanova.

🌎Discover the world of poetry with a Poetry Book Society Membership at poetrybooks.co.uk