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EASTER GIFT INSPIRATION
Looking for the perfect Easter gift? How about giving this beautiful One Plum Poem card featuring William Wordsworth...
TRANSLATING POETRIES: A SYMPOSIUM FOR TRANSLATION PRACTITIONERS
Be part of the future of poetry translation.
In September the Poetry Translation Centre will be running Translating P...
TRANSLATION THURSDAY: THE TRANSLATOR’S (INTER)VIEW. MEET OUR TRANSLATION SELECTOR, POET AND TRANSLATOR GEORGE SZIRTES
An insight into poetry and/in translation and into the PBS translation Choice selection process.
What does it mean t...
JOHN AGARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK
Great to hear recent PBS Special Commendation John Agard on Radio 4's Start the Week reading from his new Bloodaxe...
PBS POETS & LEONARD COHEN ON THE VERB
It was great to hear PBS poets Raymond Antrobus and Tara Bergin at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival at the Sage Gate...
THE SPRING VLOG IS LIVE
The PBS Spring Vlog is here! Our Vlogger in Residence, Jen Campbell, has been getting stuck into the seasonal PBS sel...
TRANSLATION THURSDAY: POEMS FROM GREECE. FROM CLASSICAL VERSES TO DARING MODERN VOICES
A word that has been on everyone’s lips in the last couple of years is “Europe”: a concept at times simple, at times ...
INTER / PLAY NORTHERN POETRY SYMPOSIUM
We're delighted to be co-hosting the Northern Poetry Symposium with NCLA Newcastle University at the Sage on the 2nd ...
TRANSLATION THURSDAY: WORLD POETRY DAY
In 1999, UNESCO decided to declare 21 March as World Poetry Day. Today is a day dedicated to the promotion of poetry,...
TRANSLATION THURSDAY: THE TRANSLATOR’S (INTER)VIEW. TERENCE DOOLEY ON THE YEAR OF THE CRAB
“Mariano Peyrou’s El año del cangrejo/The year of the crab came out in Spain only a little over a year ago and was im...
W S MERWIN REMEMBERED 1927-2019
We are saddened to hear of the poet W.S. Merwin's death, aged 91. W.S. Merwin (1927-2019) was Poet Laureate of the Un...
THE 2019 RATHBONE FOLIO PRIZE LONGLIST
We're delighted to see recent PBS Selections Raymond Antrobus and Zaffar Kunial on the 2019 Longlist for the Rathbone...