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Series (2017):

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The Sea-Migrations Tour

Join the PTC as we tour the UK with leading Somali poet Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf and award-winning English poet Clare Pollard this October.

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Saturday 7 October 2017 Central Library

Manchester - The Sea-Migrations Launch at Central Library

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Thursday 26 October 2017 Burngreave Library

Sheffield -Reading from The Sea-Migrations

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Thursday 26 October 2017 ISRAAC Somali Community Centre

Sheffield - Poetry Writing & Translating Workshop

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Tuesday 24 October 2017 Southbank Centre

London: British-Somali Women Poets at Southbank Centre

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Catastrophe: Weedhsame Tour 2017

Join the PTC as we tour the UK with leading Somali poet Xasan Daahir Ismaaciil 'Weedhsame' this October.

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Sunday 15 October 2017 The Playhouse

Ilkley Literature Festival - Catastrophe Launch

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Saturday 21 October 2017 Oxford House

London - Pure Poetry: Somali Language Reading

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Monday 23 October 2017 Oxford House

London - ‘Catastrophe’ London Launch with Daljit Nagra

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Friday 27 October 2017 M Shed

Bristol - Somali Festival Launch with Weedhsame and Martin Orwin

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Saturday 28 October 2017 Brunei Gallery / SOAS

London - SOAS African Literature Conference featuring Wole Soyinka

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Saturday 14 October 2017 Israac Somali Community Association

Somali Poetry and Storytelling: In Performance

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Saturday 14 October 2017 Israac Somali Community Association

Somali Language and Poetry Workshop – Featuring Martin Orwin

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PTC Summer Tour 2017

Join us as we tour four exceptional poets from Turkey and the UK between 21 June and 1 July. ‘We are delighted to be taking these brilliant and very different poets on the road. Karin Karakaşlı deserves international acclaim and we believe Sarah Howe’s delicate and finely wrought translations will introduce her to a whole […]

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Wednesday 21 June 2017 The Shakespeare Centre

Stratford: Bejan Matur In Conversation

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Friday 23 June 2017 British Centre for Literary Translation

Norwich: Meet the translator - Canan Marasligil

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Friday 23 June 2017 British Centre for Literary Translation

Norwich: Poems from the edge of Europe - Karin Karakaşlı and Sarah Howe

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Sunday 25 June 2017 Arcola Theatre

Dalston: Bejan Matur and Karin Karakaşlı - Turkish Poetry In Translation

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Monday 26 June 2017 Free Word Centre

Clerkenwell: The Language of Home

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Tuesday 27 June 2017 Studio 3 Arts

Barking: Spoken, Not Stirred featuring Karin Karakaşlı and Sarah Howe

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Friday 30 June 2017 Asia House

Central London: Carrying Poems Between Languages

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Saturday 1 July 2017 Burgage Hall

Ledbury Poetry Festival: Bejan Matur and Jen Hadfield

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Friday 29 September 2017 The David Attenborough Building

Cambridge - Bejan Matur and Jen Hadfield: ‘If this is a lament’

Past Events: (2017)

Thursday 14 December 2017 University Of Westminster

The Politics of Translation

Tuesday 12 December 2017 Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translate Japanese poet Karan Kurose with Dr Alan Cummings

Tuesday 28 November 2017 Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translate Iraj Ziayi with Alireza Abiz

Thursday 16 November 2017 Summerhall

Edinburgh - Tongue & Groove: Bejan Matur and Jen Hadfield at Neu! Reekie!

Tuesday 14 November 2017 Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translate Adelaide Ivánova with Francisco Vilhena

Thursday 26 October 2017 Poetry Translation Centre

PTC workshop: Translate Zehra Nigah with Rakhshanda Jalil & Marion Molteno

Tuesday 17 October 2017 Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translate Xasan Daahir Weedhsame with Martin Orwin

Monday 2 October 2017 The British Library

The PTC at International Translation Day 2017

Saturday 30 September 2017 Conway Hall

The PTC @ Free Verse: Poetry Book Fair

Thursday 14 September 2017 International Agatha Christie Festival

In Agatha’s Footsteps: Arabic Poetry Translation Workshops in Torquay

Saturday 5 August 2017 Studio 3 Arts

Spoken, Not Stirred presents: Somali Poetry with Daljit Nagra

Saturday 15 July 2017 British Library

Keepers of the Flame: Contemporary Arab Poetry

Thursday 13 July 2017 Bluecoat

Literatures from Banned Countries

Tuesday 4 July 2017 The Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translate Georgian Women Poets with Natalia Bukia-Peters

Tuesday 27 June 2017 The Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translate Chinese Poet Shen Haobo with Dave Haysom

Saturday 17 June 2017 Grangetown Library

Arabic English Poetry Reading in Cardiff

Tuesday 6 June 2017 The Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translate Mamoudou Lamine Kane with Delaina Haslam

Tuesday 23 May 2017 The Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translate Adelaide Ivánova with Francisco Vilhena

Tuesday 9 May 2017 The Poetry Translatin Centre

PTC Workshop: Translate Legna Rodriguez Iglesias with Serafina Vick

Tuesday 25 April 2017 The Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translating Arabic Poet Amjad Nasir with Atef Alshaer

Tuesday 28 March 2017 The Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translating Two Contemporary Urdu Poets

Wednesday 22 March 2017 Mosaic Rooms

CANCELLED An Evening of Poetry with Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi

Tuesday 14 March 2017 The Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translating Thai poet Uten Mahamid

Tuesday 28 February 2017 The Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translating Cuban Poet Legna Rodriguez Iglesias

Tuesday 14 February 2017 The Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translating Swahili Love Poems on Valentine’s Day

Tuesday 31 January 2017 The Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translate Persian Poet Iraj Ziayi

Tuesday 17 January 2017 The Poetry Translation Centre

PTC Workshop: Translate Chinese poet Yau Ching