The Poetry Translation Centre first brought its translation workshops to Manchester as part of the International Mother Language Day celebrations organised by the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Met. Emerging Somali translator Elmi Ali and award-winning UK poet Emily Hasler ran a workshop looking at the work of a young Somali poet called Cabdiqadir Qalinle. […]
The first PTC translation workshops held by outside of London were part of the International Agatha Christy Festival in Torquay in September 2017. We ran a series of three workshops at the festival with leading Arabic Translator Alice Guthrie and award-winning UK poet Emily Hasler. Using Agatha Christie’s own travels as a jumping off point […]
Annie McDermott is a translator working from Spanish and Portuguese into English. Her translations have been published in Granta, The White Review, World Literature Today, the Harvard Review, Asymptote and Two Lines, among others, and she is currently working on novels by the Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero for And Other Stories and Coffee House Press.
Carla Diacov is a Brazilian poet and artist born in São Bernardo do Campo in 1975. She makes paintings from menstrual blood and has written the books Amanhã Alguém Morre no Samba (Tomorrow Someone Dies in the Samba), A metáfora mais Gentil do Mundo Gentil (The Gentlest Metaphor in the Gentle World), Ninguém Vai Poder […]
Batsheva Dori (1970) was born in Jerusalem to parents who left Iraq in the 1950s. She studied German literature, history and philosophy at the HebrewUniversity of Jeruslaem, and at the Freie Universität in Berlin. A graduate of both the Helicon (Tel Aviv) and Poetry Place (Jerusalem) workshops, she edits poetry, translates poetry from German and […]
Abdul Ghafoor Liwal was born in the Mosahi district of Kabul province in Afghanistan in 1974. He studied Pashto Language and Literature at Kabul University. Liwal writes both poetry and prose and has published more than ten books. His poetry collections include Cry, Fire and Love, You Are My Whole Poetry and No, I Hadn’t […]
Will Harris is a London-based writer and editor. His debut poetry book RENDANG (2020) was a Poetry Book Society Choice, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His second book of poems, Brother Poem, will be published by Granta in 2023. Photo credit Matthew Thompson
Anna Selby is a poet and naturalist. Her poetry often explores our relationship with water and the natural world. She works collaboratively with dancers and choreographers, writes poetic-studies of different species in the field, directly from life, often underwater, and aims for these poems to share a sense of compassion and attentiveness to the environment.
Umar Timol is a Mauritian poet and writer. He has three poetry collections to his name and two novels. He has also published a collection of aphorisms, and writes comic book scripts. He has received two Centre National du Livre grants, and taken part in festivals around the world, including the Medellin International Poetry Festival […]