✨ 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

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.

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...

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.

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

✨ 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

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

📣 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!

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

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

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

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

Tickets for the Dear Diaspora book launch, trilingual reading and fundraiser for Palestine are for sale here: www.outsavvy.com/event/30035/...

Tickets for the Dear Diaspora book launch, trilingual reading and fundraiser for Palestine are for sale here: www.outsavvy.com/event/30035/...

🌿✨ 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

🎉 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

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

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

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

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

We’re hiring a Finance and Office Co-ordinator to join our team in London (hybrid), one day a week. Learn more: untold-narratives.org/.../finance-...

We’re hiring a Communications Manager to join our team in London (hybrid). Learn more: untold-narratives.org/opp.../commu...

Don't miss this fantastic event on Sudanese literature if you're in Sheffield this Wednesday! Featuring incredible readings and discussions, including by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, author of the PTC poetry collection 'A Friend's Kitchen' (tr. Bryar Bajalan + Shook)!

Partners and friends, please share with your networks!

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 24TH AUGUST! Get your application in now! The Poetry Translation Centre is recruiting trustees to our board and a new Chair. Read more on our website to find out about how you can join: buff.ly/xp8Gufg

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 24TH AUGUST! Get your application in now! The Poetry Translation Centre is recruiting trustees to our board and a new Chair. Read more on our website to find out about how you can join: buff.ly/xp8Gufg

'I want to be magic kidnapped kisses: dusk’s latening voluptuousness unfurls the mango branches.' M.P. Bonde, translated from Mozambican Portuguese by Beth Hickling-Moore Now featuring audio of two poems 🔉 modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/five-po...

Join us at 6.30pm, 27 Aug, in partnership with @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social Sheffield, for an evening of readings and discussion with @yassmin.bsky.social, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Salma Ali, Adil Babikir & @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social. Book now ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/posts/events...

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 24TH AUGUST! Get your application in now! www.poetrytranslation.org/articles-new...

Ten days left to submit!

Gorgeous, from our contributor and 2023 Ottaway Award winner Daniel Hahn:

Watch the Book Launch for EYE OF THE ISLAND on YouTube now! Take a peek at the lovely evening of poetry readings and conversation with editor Nashwa Nasreldin as Stefan Tobler and Sean O'Brien discuss the life of Corsino and the process of bringing his work into English. buff.ly/W8awqsm

Hooray for another Together Day! The PTC staff team came together with some of our trustees and advisory board members to talk all things strategy and future of the sector (and definitely not robot overlords). (Psst—we are currently looking for more trustees and a new Chair! Info: buff.ly/34tkemQ)

🎉 The 2026 Sarah Maguire Prize is now open! 🎉 £1,500 is awarded to the winning poet and £1,500 to the winning translator (or shared if there is more than one translator). The Judges for this year's prize are Mona Kareem (Chair), Leo Boix, and André Naffis-Sahely. Full info: buff.ly/is0luTO

'Proposition' by Corsino Fortes, from the new World Poet Series collection 'Eye of the Island'. Translated from Portuguese by Daniel Hahn with Sean O'Brien. Read more Corsino Fortes here: buff.ly/yxBY3IM

Call for Applications! Open to translators who are Black, Asian or from Ethnically Diverse backgrounds working from any language into English, especially those connected to diaspora and heritage language communities. nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/...

We are so proud to see translators of PTC books Juana Adcock and Leo Boix shortlisted with their original poetry for the Forward Prize for Best Collection! Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉

The Poetry Translation Centre is recruiting trustees to our board and a new Chair! Read more on our website to find out about how you can join: www.poetrytranslation.org/articles-new...

Congratulations to Leila Aboulela on winning the 2025 @englishpen.bsky.social Pinter Prize! In celebration, we're sharing an exclusive essay she wrote for Wasafiri, where she looks back over her career – and her history with the magazine – offering advice to emerging writers.

Join us at 7pm, 10 July at Keats House for ‘Who gets to love the “great British poets”?’, a conversation with three contemporary poets on who is enfranchised to appreciate the British poetry canon, in partnership with Keats House. Book now ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/posts/events...

We are incredible proud of former UNDERTOW poet Charlotte Shevchenko Knight for winning the Society of Authors Somerset Maugham Award 2025! UNDERTOW is our artist development programme for multilingual young poets, established by the PTC in 2021. Congratulations, Charlotte! 🎉 buff.ly/PWjK24f

Watch the Book Launch for EYE OF THE ISLAND on YouTube now! Take a peek at the lovely evening of poetry readings and conversation with editor Nashwa Nasreldin as Stefan Tobler and Sean O'Brien discuss the life of Corsino and the process of bringing his work into English. buff.ly/W8awqsm

We had an incredible time at Oxford Translation Day 2025! Congratulations to the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation team for another excellent year of workshops, panels and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (and winner Jeffrey Zuckerman!) 🎉

"Fortes’s poems inhabit an earth made flesh, and although the poems concern Cape Verde and its bloody colonial history, they reach always for the universal in suffering and oppression.” - Sasha Dugdale Buy EYE OF THE ISLAND by Corsino Fortes (tr. Daniel Hahn with Sean O'Brien) now: buff.ly/Jv0E5Cg

"Fortes’s poems inhabit an earth made flesh, and although the poems concern Cape Verde and its bloody colonial history, they reach always for the universal in suffering and oppression.” - Sasha Dugdale Buy EYE OF THE ISLAND by Corsino Fortes (tr. Daniel Hahn with Sean O'Brien) now: buff.ly/Jv0E5Cg

We can't wait for Oxford Translation Day in a couple of weeks! Join us there for an exciting day of translation workshops and talks ⬇️⬇️⬇️

✨Join us for an evening of poetry with Kim Hyesoon, one South Korea’s foremost poets✨ This event will celebrate the publication in the UK of Kim Hyesoon’s Griffin Prize-winning masterpiece 'Autobiography of Death', translated by Don Mee Choi. Find out more & register: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

Apply: Two Free Spots in ‘Bristol Translates’ Summer School An anonymous donor is sponsoring two spots for the Arabic-English strand with Sawad Hussain in the Bristol Translates summer school taking place this July 7th-11th.

It's launch week for 'Eye of the Island' by Corsino Fortes (tr. Daniel Hahn with Sean O'Brien)! Buy now: www.poetrytranslation.org/shop/item/ey... 10% discount if you sign up to the free online book launch on Wednesday, 21st May: www.poetrytranslation.org/event/eye-of...

FREE ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH TONIGHT! Join Stefan Tobler and Sean O'Brien as they celebrate the poetry of the late Corsino Fortes with the launch of the new book EYE OF THE ISLAND, translated by Daniel Hahn and Sean O'Brien. Tickets: buff.ly/Zw1PFkt