🦅 Our final poetry workshop from our collaboration with the Aga Khan Centre is this Saturday with Elhum Shakerifar! Give yourself the space to develop your craft in a low-barrier (but highly-aesthetic!) setting. All levels and langauges welcome. More details and tickets here: buff.ly/1elt405

🦅 Our next poetry workshop from our collaboration with the Aga Khan Centre is this Sunday, led by Leo Boix! More info and tickets here: buff.ly/KklwHoD

🦅 Our first poetry workshop from our collaboration with the Aga Khan Centre starts this Saturday! Join April Yee to explore the thin line between art and poetry through this poetry and collage workshop. More info and tickets here: buff.ly/BneQTQc

🦅 Join us this May for three poetry translation workshops at the Aga Khan Centre in Camden with April Yee, Leo Boix and Elhum Shakerifar! Lovers of words in all languages welcome—poets and non-poets, translators and non-translators. Book now: www.poetrytranslation.org/event-series...

We are thrilled to be at the @poetrysociety.bsky.social Free Verse Poetry Book & Magazine Fair this Saturday! We will also have a stall—get your poetry book goodies from 12-6:30pm. Book here: poetrysociety.org.uk/news/free-ve... See you there!

lisa minerva luxx is an important part of our community and a vital voice in poetry and activism. We stand in solidarity with them, and with the right of all writers and artists to express their views without fear of harassment or intimidation.

The videos from our 20th birthday programme showcases are now up on our YouTube channel! 🎉 Check out the playlist here for free, multinational poetry readings in translation:

The theme of our fourth showcase was Somali poetry, and we were delighted to work with long-time collaborators Kayd Somali Arts & Culture, Off the Shelf Festival (Sheffield), Southbank Centre (London) and international partners at Hargeysa Cultural Centre in Somaliland. Watch here: buff.ly/kAlmpF4

We close out this week of looking back on our 20th birthday programme with a showcase of our most recent UNDERTOW cohort at this multinational, multilingual event that brought together young poets from the UK and Singapore! Watch the video here: buff.ly/tfMBahi

Our Queer Latinx Poetry & Translation Showcase at Ledbury Poetry Festival during our 20th birthday programme was a fitting conclusion to Pride Month, celebrating diverse voices and creative collaborations across continents. Watch the event here: buff.ly/eO0FndN

Poetry on a boat? ⛴️ Witness the magic of our poetry-reading-on-a-boat for the launch of 2024's REAL by Karin Karakaşlı, including a Q&A with Karin herself, Canan Marasligil, Sarah Howe and Fran Lock at Theatreship. Relive it again for yourself: buff.ly/XRflBTu

At Newcastle Poetry Festival, we were thrilled to celebrate poets and translators Diana Anphimiadi, Salome Benidze, Natalia Bukia-Peters, Helen Mort and Jean Sprackland for our second 20th birthday showcase focussing on women poets. Watch the full event here: buff.ly/hC3FeEp

Watch the livestreamed video of our dual-hybrid event with Azita Ghahreman and her translators Elhum Shakerifar and Maura Dooley, chaired by George Szirtes (in partnership with the Dawit Izaak Library and Världspoesidagen Malmö) from our Norwich Showcase: youtu.be/Fy61Rkb-ROU

Voices in Exile | Poetry Translation Centre at the National Centre for Writing

Join us for an evening with Azita Ghahreman and her translators Elhum Shakerifar and Maura Dooley, chaired by George Szirtes (in partnership with the Dawit I...

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Happy World Book Day! How else to celebrate than with some dual-language poetry books from across the world? Grab yours, today only, at a 25% discount across our entire shop and with free UK shipping! Ends midnight UK time. 🔥 poetrytranslation.org/shop 🔥

On 6 March 2026, The Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies at Senate House will host Creative Practice and Collaboration: Giving to Gain. The afternoon workshop will be co-led by Sophie Stevens, Fran Olivares, and the PTC's Nariman Youssef. Book here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Poetry Translation Centre in partnership with the National Centre for Writing is hosting a panel at London Book Fair this year called Read Like a Translator: Translation and the Year of Reading. More information here: www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/confer... DM for LBF meeting slots with us!

It's International Mother Languages Day! This excerpt is from 'Railings Around the Crib' by Farzaneh Ghavami, translated from Persian by Alireza Abiz with the Poetry Translation Workshop. Read the full poem in both languages with translation notes: www.poetrytranslation.org/poem/railing...

A small love letter today to the languages that hold us; the ones that carry our first jokes, our family sayings, the words we reach for when we’re trying to be most ourselves. What’s a word or phrase you can’t quite translate, but never want to lose? #MotherLanguageDay

Hello 2026 👋 It’s the UK’s National Year of Reading, and we’re starting the year with a small promise to ourselves: to keep making space for translated poetry in all the little corners of life. What are you reading right now? #GoAllIn2026 #NationalYearOfReading Photo by Stuart Platt.

From everyone here at the PTC, we wish you a restful festive season and a buoyant start to 2026! We’re very much looking forward to what the next year will carry us into together. Our office is closed between 22 Dec and 2 Jan. See you all next year! 🪼📚

Publishers, get your submissions in for the 2026 Sarah Maguire Prize for International Poetry in Translation by the deadline on 31 December 2025. Find the guidelines and submissions portal here: buff.ly/A0Wya7Y We look forward to receiving your submissions!

There is only one day left of our biggest shop sale yet for orders before our winter closure! There's a blanket 25% off the entire PTC bookshop until the end of the year, but order by tonight if you would like your books or postcards mailed to you before Christmas. Shop now at: buff.ly/KxprNKx

What do Ursula Le Guin, Diana Bellessi, and Karan Kurose have in common? They're all featured in our essay anthology, Living in Language: International reflections for the practising poet! For this week only, read two of the essays from the anthology on the PTC website FOR FREE! buff.ly/rZxRxC9

12pm GMT TODAY is your last chance to enter! 🏃⬇️

Poetry Translation Centre@poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🔥 PTC Holiday Giveaway! 🔥 Win a bundle of 3 Arabic poetry books, a notebook + 12 postcards! How to enter: ⭐ Like 🔁 Repost ✨ Follow UK residents 18+. Enter on IG, FB + LinkedIn for extra chances (each platform = 1 entry). Closes Mon 12:00 UK. Links + T&Cs in our Linktree! 🎁

🔥 PTC Holiday Giveaway! 🔥 Win a bundle of 3 Arabic poetry books, a notebook + 12 postcards! How to enter: ⭐ Like 🔁 Repost ✨ Follow UK residents 18+. Enter on IG, FB + LinkedIn for extra chances (each platform = 1 entry). Closes Mon 12:00 UK. Links + T&Cs in our Linktree! 🎁

“The Water People portrays a world I’d love to inhabit.” Nashwa Nasreldin, the PTC's Editor, shares one of her favourite PTC books—‘The Water People' by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker! ⚡ Get the book now during our 25% off shop-wide sale! Plus free UK shipping: buff.ly/sM4bdMg

✨ PTC End-of-Year Bookshop Sale ✨ To close out the year, we’re offering: 📚 25% off every title 📚 Buy 3, get 1 free 📚 Free UK shipping These are our top sellers from book fairs and events in 2025! Buy before the 16th for delivery by the 25th. Shop the sale: buff.ly/lTJqhCC

Our 25% shop-wide book sale is ongoing! 📚 Get free UK shipping and buy three, get one free on all our wonderful poetry books ⬇️

Poetry Translation Centre@poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“100% the funniest book ever translated by the PTC (or anyone else I suspect).” The PTC's Bern Roche Farrelly, shares his favourite PTC book—'A little body are many parts' by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, tr. by Serafina Vick with Abigail Parry! ⚡ Get the book now for 25% off: tinyurl.com/bdhzmzxc

“100% the funniest book ever translated by the PTC (or anyone else I suspect).” The PTC's Bern Roche Farrelly, shares his favourite PTC book—'A little body are many parts' by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, tr. by Serafina Vick with Abigail Parry! ⚡ Get the book now for 25% off: tinyurl.com/bdhzmzxc

PTC eBooks are here! 📱✨ For the first time ever, you can read selected PTC titles digitally — including six World Poet Series books and Living in Language. And yes… they’re included in our 25% off bookshop sale 🎉 Shop and download here: buff.ly/4Y24a6E