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Poetry Translation Centre
The Poetry Translation Centre (PTC) is an organization dedicated to translating poetry from Africa, Asia and Latin America. It is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity. It was founded by the British poet Sarah Maguire in 2004. Its work has been championed by such British poets as Nick Laird, and it is one of the Arts Council England's regularly funded organisations. The PTC's website currently includes translations of 521 poems by more than 100 poets from 21 countries written in 19 different languages – from Amharic to Zapotec. The poems are given in three different versions: in the original language, as a basic "literal" translation and as the final version in English, thus giving a valuable insight into the translation process. The site also features recordings of poems read in English, Arabic, Kurdish, Portuguese, Somali, Tajik and Urdu, together with videos and podcasts of readings. The PTC has organised several World Poets' Tours. The first, in 2005, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Maguire
Sarah Maguire (26 March 1957 – 2 November 2017) was a British poet, translator and broadcaster. Life Born in London, Sarah Maguire left school early to train as a gardener with the London Borough of Ealing (1974–77). Her horticultural career had a significant impact on her poetry: her third collection of poems ''The Florist's at Midnight'' (Jonathan Cape, 2001) brought together all her poems about plants and gardens, and she edited the anthology ''Flora Poetica: the Chatto Book of Botanical Verse'' (2001). She was also Poet in Residence at Chelsea Physic Garden, and edited ''A Green Thought in a Green Shade'', essays by poets who have worked in a garden environment, published at the conclusion of this residency. Maguire was the first writer to be sent to Palestine (1996) and Yemen (1998) by the British Council. As a result of these visits she developed a strong interest in Arabic literature; she translated the Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish and Ghassan Zaqtan and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Anphimiadi
Diana Anphimiadi (, also Romanized ''Anpimiadi, Anfimiadi''; born 1982) is a Georgian poet, journalist, publicist, linguist and teacher. Early life Anphimiadi was born in Tbilisi in 1982. She has Pontic Greek ancestry. She attended Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, studying the Georgian languages, and later received a Master's in linguistics. Career Anphimiadi released her first work in 2008, winning first prize in the 2008 Tsero (Crane) literary contest and the Saba literary award for best first collection. As well as several poetry collections, she published a selection of stories, memories and recipes in 2012, entitled ''Personal Cuisine''. A chapbook of her work was published in 2018 in English, and a full collection of her work (''Why I No Longer Write Poems'') in 2022 by Bloodaxe Books. According to her publisher, "Her award-winning work reflects an exceptionally curious mind and glides between classical allusions and surreal imagery. She revivifies ancient my ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry Organizations
Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the Sanskrit '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean O'Brien (writer)
Sean O'Brien (born 19 December 1952 in London) is a British poet, critic and playwright. His prizes include the Eric Gregory Award (1979), the Somerset Maugham Award (1984), the Cholmondeley Award (1988), the Forward Poetry Prize (1995, 2001 and 2007) and the T. S. Eliot Prize (2007). He is one of only three poets (the others being Ted Hughes and John Burnside) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same collection of poems (''The Drowned Book''). He grew up in Hull, and was educated at Hymers College and Selwyn College, Cambridge. He has lived in Newcastle upon Tyne since 1990, where he teaches at the university. He was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor at St. Anne's College, Oxford for 2016-17. Career O Brien's book of essays on contemporary poetry, ''The Deregulated Muse'' (Bloodaxe), was published in 1998, as was his anthology ''The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945'' (Picador). ''Cousin Coat: Selected Poems 1976–2001' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Khalvati
Mimi Khalvati (born 28 April 1944) is an Iranian-born British poet. Life and career She was born in Tehran, Iran on 28 April 1944. She grew up on the Isle of Wight and was educated in Switzerland at the University of Neuchâtel, and in London at the Drama Centre and the School of Oriental and African Studies. She then worked as a theatre director in Tehran, translating from English into Persian and devising new plays, as well as co-founding the Theatre in Exile group. She now lives in London Borough of Hackney, and is a Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths College and a director of the London Poetry School. Khalvati was 47 when her first book was published in 1991. Its title, ''In White Ink'', derives from the work of Hélène Cixous who claimed that women in the past have written "in white ink". Michael Schmidt observes that Khalvati is "formally a most resourceful poet". Khalvati is the founder of The Poetry School, running poetry workshops and courses in London, and is co-ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Ford (poet)
Mark Ford (born 1962 Nairobi, Kenya) is a British poet. He currently serves as the Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London. Life Mark was born in Nairobi, Kenya on the 24th June, 1962 to Donald and Mary Ford. He went to school in London, and attended Oxford University and, as a Kennedy Scholar, Harvard University. He studied for his doctorate at Oxford University on the poetry of John Ashbery, and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writing, including on Raymond Roussel. From 1991-1993 he was Visiting Lecturer at Kyoto University in Japan. He is Professor of English in the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London. He is a regular contributor to the ''New York Review of Books'', ''Times Literary Supplement'', and the ''London Review of Books''. Helen Vendler compared him with John Ashbery. Works Poetry * ''Landlocked'' (Chatto & Windus, 1992; 1998) * ''Soft Sift'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lavinia Greenlaw
Lavinia Elaine Greenlaw (born 30 July 1962) is an English poet, novelist and non-fiction writer. She won the Prix du Premier Roman with her first novel and her poetry has been shortlisted for awards that include the T. S. Eliot Prize, Forward Prize and Whitbread Poetry Prize. Her 2014 Costa Poetry Award was for ''A Double Sorrow: A Version of Troilus and Criseyde''. Greenlaw currently holds the post of Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) at Royal Holloway, University of London."Lavinia Greenlaw appointed Chair of Creative Writing" Royal Holloway, University of London, 31 May 2017. Biography [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Pierpoint
Katherine Pierpoint (born 1961) is an English poet. She is best known for her book ''Truffle Beds'' which won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Life and career Pierpoint was born in Northampton in 1961. She studied languages at Exeter University. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in publishing and marketing. ''Truffle Beds'', Pierpoint's first poetry book, was published in 1995 and won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her second book, a collection of translated poems by Coral Bracho, was written alongside Tom Boll and published in 2008. She won a Hawthornden International Creative Writing Fellowship in 1993 and was named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 1996. She was the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Kent and was appointed the poet-in-residence at The King's School, Canterbury The King's School is a public school (English independent day and boarding sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Shapcott
Jo Shapcott FRSL (born 24 March 1953, London) is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award. Early life and education Jo Shapcott was born 24 March 1953 in London. She lived in Hemel Hempstead and attended Cavendish School in the town prior to studying as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin. Later she studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford and received a Harkness Fellowship to Harvard. Career Shapcott teaches on the MA in creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. She was a visiting professor at the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University, was a visiting professor at the London Institute and was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University from 2003 to 2005. She is a longstanding tutor for the Arvon Foundation. and a former president of the Poetry Societ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Duran
Jane Duran, born , is a Spanish-American poet, born in Cuba whilst her father was working as a diplomat in the country. Background Duran was born in Cuba to an American mother and a Spanish father, Gustavo Durán, who had fought with the Republican army in the Spanish Civil war. He fled Spain after Franco's victory but would never talk about his experiences. The themes of silences, loss and exile haunt much of her work. Duran was brought up in the United States and Chile, moving to England in 1966 after graduating from Cornell University. She now lives in London with her Algerian husband and their son. She has published four collections – ''Breathe Now, Breathe'' (1995), ''Silences from the Spanish Civil War'' (2002), ''Coastal'' (2006) and ''Graceline'', all published by Enitharmon Press. ''Breathe Now, Breathe'' won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and in 2005 Duran received a Cholmondeley Award. In collaboration with Gloria García Lorca she translated tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Harsent
David Harsent (born in Devon) is an English poet who for some time earned his living as a TV scriptwriter and crime novelist. Background During his early career he was part of a circle of poets centred on Ian Hamilton and forming something of a school, promoting conciseness and imagist-like clarity in verse, though his work has changed and developed a good deal since then. He has published twelve collections of poetry which have won several literary prizes and awards. ''Legion'' won the Forward Prize for best collection 2005 and was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot and Whitbread Awards. ''Night'' (2012) was triple short-listed for major awards in the UK and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize. ''Fire Songs'' won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2014. ''Sprinting from the Graveyard.'' his versions of poems written by the Bosnian poet Goran Simic while under siege in Sarajevo, appeared in 1997 and was adapted to opera, radio and television. ''In Secret'', his versions of Yanni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choman Hardi
Choman Hardi ( ku, چۆمان هەردی),(born 1974) is a Kurdish poet, translator and painter. Background She has published three volumes of poetry in Kurdish and two collections of English poems, ''Life for Us'' (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) and ''Considering the Women'' (Bloodaxe Books, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2016. Her articles have appeared in ''Modern Poetry in Translation'' Career She is a former chairperson of Exiled Writers Ink! and has organized creative writing workshops for the British Council in the UK, Belgium, Czech Republic and India. She is a former poet-in-residence at Moniack Mhor Writers' Centre (Scotland), Villa Hellebosch (Belgium), Hedgebrook Women Writers' Retreat (USA) and The Booth (Shetland). As an academic researcher, she has been a visiting scholar in The Centre for Multiethnic Research (Uppsala University), Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin) and The Department of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. Between 2009 and 2011, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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