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 🔥
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/...
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!
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...
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
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.
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!
🪼📚
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!
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
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
12pm GMT TODAY is your last chance to enter! 🏃⬇️
🔥 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! 🎁
“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
✨ 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
Our 25% shop-wide book sale is ongoing! 📚
Get free UK shipping and buy three, get one free on all our wonderful poetry books ⬇️
“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
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
✨ 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
✨ 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...
Find out more about them on our website: buff.ly/fwttVZt
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
