Welcome to the Manchester Translation Series
Join us at Manchester Poetry Library from March 18th-20th, 2025 for the third annual Manchester Translation Series.
Tuesday 18th March
10:30am-12.00pm – Collaborative Translation Workshop (Chair: Jeffrey Yang)
Join award-winning visiting poet, translator and editor Jeffrey Yang for an engaging collaborative translation workshop. No prior language or translation experience required.
Join us for an insightful discussion on the creative and critical decisions that shape the multilingual literary sphere today.
Wednesday 19th March
In this panel discussion with Anita Ngai, A. E. Stallings and Jeffrey Yang we’ll explore how the contextual can (or cannot) be translated.
Join editors Rachael Allen (Fitzcarraldo Editions, Granta Books), Stefan Tobler (And Other Stories) and Jeffrey Yang (New Directions, New York Review of Books) for a lively conversation on the current UK and US markets for literature in translation, chaired by Brian Sneeden (World Poetry Books).
3:00-4:30pm – Collaborative Translation Workshop (Chair: A. E. Stallings)
Join Oxford Professor of Poetry A. E. Stallings for an interactive collaborative translation workshop. No prior language or translation experience required.
Join Manchester City Poet Charlotte Shevchenko Knight for a workshop which explores the poetic possibilities of jokes lost in translation. No materials or second languages are required for the session, you need only bring a sense of humour.
Thursday 20th March
We’re delighted to welcome Oxford Professor of Poetry A. E. Stallings and award-winning poet-translator Jeffrey Yang to Manchester Poetry Library for the third annual Manchester Translation Series. The event will include a poetry reading, along with a discussion on topics related to translation and the roles of literature in our current geopolitical moment.
“If we removed all translated works from a library, would we still have a library? Translation does not just bring important works into a language; it changes language and literature.”
Dr Brian Sneeden
Hosted at Manchester Poetry Library and supported by the Poetry Research Group and Manchester Writing School.
Check out our past events
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