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Azita Ghahreman Tour 2018

This October we are celebrating the publication of 'Negative of a Group Photograph', a new collection of poetry by Farsi poet Azita Ghahreman, with an national tour.

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Monday 8 October 2018 Central Library

Manchester Literature Festival - Azita Ghahreman & Maura Dooley Reading

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Saturday 13 October 2018 Ilkley Literature Festival

Ilkley Literature Festival - Azita Ghahreman & Maura Dooley Reading

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Thursday 11 October 2018 The Mosaic Rooms

The Mosaic Rooms - Negative of a Group Photograph London Launch

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Saturday 6 October 2018 Winchester Poetry Festival

Winchester Poetry Festival - World Voices featuring Azita Ghahreman & Maura Dooley

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Friday 12 October 2018

SOAS - An evening of Farsi poetry with Azita Ghahreman

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Azita Ghahreman Tour

Azita Ghahreman is the author of five collections of poetry, Eve’s Songs (1991), Sculptures of Autumn (1995), Forgetfulness is a Simple Ritual (2002), The Suburb of Crows (2008) and Under Hypnosis in Dr Caligan’s Cabinet (2012). In 2013 she was a recipient of Swedish PEN’s Prince Wilhelm Award. Russian and Ukrainian translations of her poems […]

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In this series:

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Monday 8 October 2018 Central Library

Manchester Literature Festival - Azita Ghahreman & Maura Dooley Reading

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Saturday 13 October 2018 Ilkley Literature Festival

Ilkley Literature Festival - Azita Ghahreman & Maura Dooley Reading

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Thursday 11 October 2018 The Mosaic Rooms

The Mosaic Rooms - Negative of a Group Photograph London Launch

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Saturday 6 October 2018 Winchester Poetry Festival

Winchester Poetry Festival - World Voices featuring Azita Ghahreman & Maura Dooley

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Friday 12 October 2018

SOAS - An evening of Farsi poetry with Azita Ghahreman

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Georgian Poets Tour

The PTC will be touring this May with two Georgian poets, Diana Anphimiadi and Salome Benidze alongside their poet-translators the award-winning UK poets Jean Sprackland and Helen Mort.

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Thursday 17 May 2018 British Centre for Literary Translation

Norwich - Translation Q & A with Diana Anphimiadi, Jean Sprackland & Natalia Bukia-Peters at BCLT

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Thursday 17 May 2018 Glasgow Women's Library

Glasgow Women’s Library - Poetry with Salome Benidze and Helen Mort

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Thursday 17 May 2018 The Book Hive

Norwich - Beginning to Speak - Diana Anphimiadi and Jean Sprackland at The Book Hive

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Tuesday 22 May 2018 Burgess Foundation

Manchester -  Diana Anphimiadi and Salome Benidze with Jean Sprackland and Helen Mort at the Anthony Burgess Foundation

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Tuesday 15 May 2018 Poetry Translation Centre

Translating Georgian poet Lia Liqokeli with Natalia Bukia-Peters

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Wednesday 23 May 2018 SOAS

London - Diana Anphimiadi and Salome Benidze with Jean Sprackland and Helen Mort at SOAS

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Friday 25 May 2018 Leith St Andrew's Church

Edinburgh - Salome Benidze and Helen Mort appear at Neu! Reekie!

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Monday 21 May 2018 Bristol City Hall

Bristol - Diana Anphimiadi and Salome Benidze with Jean Sprackland and Natalia Bukia-Peters

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Saturday 26 May 2018 The Poly

Falmouth - Diana Anphimiadi, Jean Sprackland and Natalia Bukia-Peters

Past Events: (2018)

Tuesday 4 December 2018 The Albany

Translate French verse by Mauritian poet Umar Timol with Delaina Haslam

Tuesday 20 November 2018 The Albany

Translate Pashto poet Abdul Ghafoor Liwal with Dawood Azami

Tuesday 6 November 2018 – Sunday 11 November 2018 The Albany

Translate Hebrew poet Batsheva Dori-Carlier with Micha Meyers

Wednesday 24 October 2018 The Chamber

‘So At One with You’ Anthology Launch at City Hall, London

Tuesday 23 October 2018 The Albany

SOLD OUT Translate Arabic poet Najwan Darwish with Atef Alshear

Tuesday 9 October 2018 The Albany

Translate Indonesian poet Debra Yatim with Khairani Barokka

Tuesday 25 September 2018 The Albany

Translate Brazilian poet & artist Carla Diacov with Annie McDermott

Tuesday 10 July 2018 Poetry Translation Centre

SOLD OUT Translate Yoruba poet Taiwo Olunlade with Tọ́lá Ọ̀ṣunnúgà

Thursday 28 June 2018 Birkbeck University of London

Poetry Transcription Pizza Party

Tuesday 26 June 2018 The Poetry Translation Centre

SOLD OUT Translate Arabic poet Amjad Nasser with Atef Alshaer

Tuesday 12 June 2018

Translate Hebrew poetry by Roy Hasan with Micha Meyers

Tuesday 29 May 2018 Poetry Translation Centre

Translate Spanish poetry from Paraguay by Giselle Caputo with David Shook

Tuesday 1 May 2018 Poetry Translation Centre

Translating French poetry from Congolese poet Gabriel Okoundji

Sunday 29 April 2018 Purcell Room

Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi Reads at Fifty Poems from Five Decades

Tuesday 27 March 2018 The Poetry Translation Centre

Translating Swahili Poet Issa Shivji with Ida Hadjivayanis

Saturday 24 March 2018 The Mosaic Rooms

A Sudanese Celebration of Sarah Maguire

Tuesday 13 March 2018 The Poetry Translation Centre

Translating Korean poet Kim Seung Hee with Brother Anthony

Tuesday 27 February 2018 The Poetry Translation Centre

Translating Japanese poet Karan Kurose with Dr Alan Cummings

Thursday 22 February 2018 The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Manchester - Translating Somali Poetry with Emily Hasler and Elmi Ali

Saturday 17 February 2018 Waterstones

Verve Poetry Festival - Poetry Translation Workshop

Saturday 17 February 2018 Waterstones

Verve Poetry Festival - The Sea-Migrations Reading

Tuesday 13 February 2018 The Poetry Translation Centre

Translating Arabic poetry with Alice Guthrie

Tuesday 30 January 2018 The Poetry Translation Centre

Translate Debra Yatim with Khairani Barokka

Tuesday 16 January 2018 The Poetry Translation Centre

Translating the Hebrew ‘Ars Poetica’ poet Roy Hasan with Micha Meyers