9 September 2014 — 14 September 2014
Poets and translators from Georgia and the UK gather in Tbilisi for an intensive week of literary translation. LAF’s first poetry translation workshop in Georgia aims to produce quality... more
7 June 2014 — 15 May 2014
(English) Six gay women poets from Europe gathered in Slovenia in May 2014 to translate each other's poetry. Alicia García Núñez (Spain), Anna Gulczynska (Poland), Anna Mattsson (Sweden), Kallia... more
29 November 2013 — 6 December 2013
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25 August 2013 — 30 August 2013
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8 June 2013 — 16 June 2013
(English) Poets writing in unofficial languages - Asturian, Corsican, Frisian and Friuli - join Slovenian poets at a poetry translation workshop in Dane and Ljubljana, Slovenia.
4 March 2013 — 9 March 2013
(English) "Last week, I learned that we don’t have enough words for ‘sea monster’. In fact, we don’t even have one."
23 January 2013 — 26 March 2013
(English) "...what is an aphrodisiac vegetable, how can you say 'no fucking way' in Arabic? Having the poets there to discuss, question, and empathise with meant we were able to create artistically... more
24 January 2013 — 30 January 2013
(English) "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."
28 October 2012 — 3 November 2012, 7pm
(English) "The intense discussions went deep into the language contexts of each poem, their contents, background and themes. But we had also time to get to know each other and share questions and... more
5 July 2012 — 10 July 2012, 7pm
(English) "Because of the make up of the group and the circumstances within which it operated – the beautiful Smolenice Castle – a sense of trust and a determination to “get it right”... more
