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Ifor ap Glyn at StAnza festival translation workshop

Ifor ap Glyn (Wales/UK) will be working with poets Charlotte Runcie (Scotland/UK), Magnús Sigurðsson (Iceland), Matilda Södergran (Finland/Sweden) and Arvis Viguls (Latvia) in March. They will spend a week translating each other’s poems in Scotland at a translation workshop ...more

Dispatch #3 I am not an elf

Christopher Meredith, Awdur Preswyl Tŷ Cyfieithu/HALMA, yn Novo Mesto, Slofenia

I was in a pub in Brecon once when four Dutch tourists came up to me and said: Excuse us. We have been told you speak Welsh. Could you please sing us one of your famous Welsh songs?

I probably was ...more

Times Stephen Spender Prize

The Times Stephen Spender Prize is open for entries. Translate a poem from any language, classical or modern, into English. Three categories – Open, 18-and-under and 14-and-under – and cash prizes. Details, entry forms and free booklets of past winning entries available from the ...more

Kathryn Gray in Santiniketan, West Bengal

'Translation is not simply rendering words, of course. Translation is mood, personality, the ghostings of all that has gone into the shaping of those words in the first place.' 

Kathryn Gray writes on her return from a translation workshop in Santiniketan, popularly known today ...more