Queer Digital Residency Podcast Pt1: Translation and the Queer Super Hero
Join the PTC's Partisipation Producer Bern Roche Farrelly and one of our Queer Digital Residency translators Jon Herring for a wide ranging...
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Poem Podcast from the Poetry Translation Centre
The Poetry Translation Centre is dedicated to translating contemporary poetry from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Each week we bring you a new poem podcast from one of the world's greatest...
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Desire Poems by Women Poets
Right now in April 2022 the PTC has just released our latest World Poets Series Book 'To Love a Woman' by Argentinian poet Diana Bellessi, t...
Three Poems By Diana Anphimiadi
Today's podcast is dedicated to the poetry of Georgian Poet Diana Anphimiadi. Thanks to our working relationship with the translator Natalia...
Poems for Births, Deaths and Marriages
Welcome to the Dual Poetry Podcast's department of births deaths and marriages. Reflecting our remit, the department of births deaths and ma...
Poems from the 30th Parallel North
The 30th parallel north links several countries represented in the PTC archive, Mexico, Morocco, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan Pakistan, I...
Nature Poetry and The Climate Emergency
This week the Dual Poetry Podcast is focusing on nature poems. In the shadow of the climate emergency poems about the natural world take on...
Five Poems From Afghanistan
Dual Poetry Podcast is taking a look at Afghan poetry, with five poems from the PTC archive. We made this recording in September 2021, weeks...
Tajik Poetry: Flute Player and Must Escape by Farzaneh Khojandi
Born in the remote Khojand province of Tajikistan in 1964, Farzaneh Khojandi is widely regarded as the most exciting woman poet writing in P...
Two poems by Mexican Poet Coral Bracho
On today's episode, we are travelling again to Mexico to spend some time with the work of Coral Bracho, winner of the Aguascalientes Nationa...
'My Mother's Language' and 'The Earth Opens and Welcomes You' by Abdellatif Laâbi
This week we are looking at the work of Abdellatif Laâbi, who is widely acknowledged to be Morocco's greatest living poet. This week the PTC...
Haft seen & Epitaph by Shakila Azizzada
Shakila Azizzada was born in Kabul in Afghanistan in 1964. She now lives in the Netherlands and writes in both Dari and Dutch. Her poems are...
'The North Wind Whips' and 'From The Palm Of My Hand' by Víctor Terán
With his work translated and anthologized around the world, Víctor Terán is the preeminent living poet of the Isthmus Zapotec. He was born i...
The Story of Flying and The Story of The Poor by Salome Benidze
This week we are bringing you two poems in from a series by the Georgian poet Salome Benidze, The Story of Flying and The Story of the poor....
'In Your Own Words' & 'After Midnight' by Mohan Rana
In this episode of the podcast, we are looking at Hindi poetry. Late last year the PTC published two chapbooks in our World Poet Series feat...
Letters from Afar: Poems by Noshi Gillani & Kajal Ahmad
In this podcast, we bring you poems that take the form of messages from afar, the poets are addressing loved ones but communicating to the r...
Dari and Farsi Poetry: Shakila Azizzada and Mohammad Bagher Kolahi Ahari
We start 2021 with two poets whose poems have narrative strands, one is a fairy tale complete with daemons and the other is a sketch of the...
Three Poems by Najwan Darwish
Translated by Atef Alshaer with Paul Batchelor. This October the PTC published 'Embrace' a dual-language Arabic and English collection of po...
Black History Month Podcast
Listen to two poems from the Poetry Translation Centre Archive: 'Taste' by Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf translated by Said Jama Hussein with poet...
'Poem of the Nile' and 'They Think I Am a King: Yes, I Am the King' by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
This week as part of the PTC's Resistance Poets series we bring you two poems by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, a Sudanese poet who writes in Arabic. '...
'Drawing' and 'The Football' by Reza Mohammadi
Currently, the PTC is looking at Resistance Poets whose work is unafraid to tackle political issues. This week we are bringing you two pomes...