Literature across Frontiers in Georgia

Most intriguing translation event in Georgia between the 9th – 14th September 2014.

Poets and translators from Georgia and the UK gather in Tbilisi for an intensive week of literary translation aiming to produce quality English translations of 6 Georgian poets: Rati Amaglobeli, Shota Iatashvili, Gaga Nakhutsvrishvili, Lela Samniashvili and Maya Sarishvili.  The work of the late poet and musician Irakli Charkviani will also be translated.

Thanks to Bill Herbert for bringing this and Literature across Frontiers, a European funded Welsh-based project which aims to develop intercultural dialogue through literature and translation and highlight lesser-translated literatures to our attention.

Full details here http://www.lit-across-frontiers.org/workshops/georgian-poetry-translation-workshop/

Contemporary Chinese Poetry London, UK 16th April 2012

Jade Ladder is a new anthology of Chinese poetry and its diversity as it renegotiates its relationship with Western modernist and postmodernist poetry, and re-engages with its Classical heritage. Misty, post-Misty, Fourth Generation; publication in samizdat, publication in exile, publication on the internet – in a nation of billions, it sometimes seems that there are a million ways to write poetry.

This event is held from 7.00 p.m at London Review bookshop 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL

Chinese poets, driven by alienation, trauma and exile, are in the midst of one of the most thorough and exciting experiments in world poetry. Discussion and readings with Xi Chuan, one of China’s most influential poets, and Bloodaxe editors Yang Lian and W.N. Herbert.

More information is available here http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/product.php?productid=56080&cat=0&page=1 and here http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852248955.