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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

🦅 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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🦅 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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🦅 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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🦅 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...

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

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!

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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.

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

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:

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

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

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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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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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 🔥

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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/...

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

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!

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

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...

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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.

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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! 🪼📚

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

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!

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

🔥 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! 🎁

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

“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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

✨ 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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

“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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

✨ 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 A perfect chance to explore new poets in translation or pick up gifts for poetry lovers. Shop the sale: buff.ly/1GJGvhM

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

What a wonderful celebration of Somali culture, poetry, and translation at the Somali Culture Festival! The Poetry Translation Centre was very pleased to be invited to talk about getting into poetry translation and as well as our 20+ year history of publishing Somali poetry in translation.

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Did you know that UEA holds the archive of PTC founder Sarah Maguire? Her archive reveals her creative process, professional networks and personal relationships. Heng Yeh Yee responds creatively to the archive, relating particularly to the founding of the PTC: uea-uk.libguides.com/blogs/archiv...

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

We are pleased to welcome our new co-chairs, Mónica Ibarra Parle and Cecilia Rossi! Our trustees Jorge Llorens, Bohdan Piasecki, Janet Remmington and Tatevik Sargsyan are joined by Matthew Beavers, Supriyo Chaudhuri, Will Forrester, Jennifer Lee Tsai, Bernie Mayall and Niroshini Somasundaram.

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We're delighted to have two titles on the 2025 Warwick Prize longlist: My Secret Life: Selected Poems by Krisztina Tóth (trs. @georgeszirtes.bsky.social) & Translation of the Route by Laura Wittner (trs. Juana Adcock). More details: bloodaxebooks.com/news?article... @poetrytranslation.bsky.social

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Out-Spoken @outspokenldn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

✨ We’re back in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre next month for an unmissable night of poetry + music ✨ On 25 October, we bring you performances from: Michael Rosen Jackie Kay Simon Armitage Daisy Chute Errol Linton 📍 Southbank Centre 📅 25.10.25 🎟 Book now! tinyurl.com/bdezt4mc

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A massive congratulations are due to two of our long-standing collaborators Leo Boix and Juana Adcock for their shortlistings for the 2025 Forward Prize for Best Collection! Celebrate with us with 20% off their books on the PTC webshop until midnight this Sunday! poetrytranslation.org/shop

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

📣 The Poetry Translation Centre has moved our offices to Rich Mix in Shoreditch! 📣 The Albany has been a wonderful home for us and we can’t recommend them enough. We'll keep our long-standing relationships in SE8 while building new connections in Shoreditch and Bethnal Green. See you soon in E1!

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Translators! Send in your book length poetry translation! $1500 prize, publication by the University of Wisconsin Press! You can resubmit--different judge every year!

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

We're delighted to announce four curated online writing workshops tutored by our inaugural International Translator in Residence, the International Booker Prize winning writer-translator, Deepa Bhasthi. The first pair of workshops will be held in autumn 2025. Registration: buff.ly/Gguo10u

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Happy National Poetry Day! Translating and publishing Somali poetry in translation has been at the heart of the Poetry Translation Centre's work since its inception over 20 years ago. Here are some of our Somali books, which you can grab from our online bookshop: buff.ly/LoLB2Zn

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Honoured to join @englishpen.bsky.social to talk about translating in a hostile world, with Meera @roundtablebookscic.bsky.social, Nariman @poetrytranslation.bsky.social and others this week for #ITD2025

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The Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

🌿✨ Watch the Laurel Prize Ceremony 2025 live! ✨🌿 📖 Finalist readings 👩‍⚖️ Judges: Kathleen Jamie, Daljit Nagra & Caroline Lucas 🏆 Winner revealed live 📅 Fri 19 Sept 2025 🕠 5.30pm (BST) 👉 Sign up here: poetryschool.com/cou... #LaurelPrize #Ecopoetry #PoetryCommunity #ClimatePoetry

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🎉 The 2026 Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation is now open! 🎉 Chair of Judges Mona Kareem says: "This special prize has introduced us to poets from across the globe, whose poems evoke and inspire and agitate, and for that I am excited to read the work of every entrant!" buff.ly/kbb7re9

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

SAVE THE DATE — Dear Diaspora: book launch, trilingual reading & fundraiser for Palestine. Sunday September 28th from 7-9pm UK (brunch time in the US) | online & in person at The Common Press! @susanpoet.bsky.social @poetrytranslation.bsky.social @thecommonpress.bsky.social @phuonganh.bsky.social

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

FLASH SALE ONLY THIS WEEK! Celebrate Women in Translation Month with us by buying some of the best poetry in translation by women poets and translators! For this week only, get 21% off our entire shop by entering the code WIT2025 at checkout. Offer ends 11:59pm BST on 31 August. buff.ly/vn6eVhb

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Celebrating Women in Translation for 21 Years with 21% off the PTC online bookshop! This month we’re taking a closer look at some of the women poets we have translated and published over the past 21 years. Get 21% off the entire PTC bookshop with code WIT2025 for this week only! buff.ly/vn6eVhb

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