Manchester Translation Series at Manchester Poetry Library
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Manchester Translation Series 2025
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Manchester is big on languages (see the new Manchester Multilingual City Poets for starters) and the annual Manchester Translation Series is back this March for a third time, taking place over three days at Manchester Poetry Library.
Places for all events are free but limited, and no prior language or translation experience required – here’s the programme:
Tuesday 18 March
10:30am-12 noon – Collaborative Translation Workshop. Join award-winning visiting poet, translator and editor Jeffrey Yang for an engaging collaborative translation workshop.
1pm-2:30pm – In Other Words: Editing, Translating, and Curating Multilingual Literature. Chaired by Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal, this panel will hear from Sana Goyal and Nashwa Nasreldin, in an insightful discussion on the creative and critical decisions that shape the multilingual literary sphere today.
Wednesday 19 March
10:30am-12 noon – Translating the Contextual. This panel discussion will see Anita Ngai, AE Stallings and Jeffrey Yang explore how the contextual can (or cannot) be translated.
1pm-2:30pm – Trends in Translation: Publishers on UK and US Literary Markets. 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).
3-4:30pm – Collaborative Translation Workshop. Join Oxford Professor of Poetry A. E. Stallings for an interactive collaborative translation workshop.
5-6:30pm – Who’s Laughing Now?: Humour and Poetry in Translation. Charlotte Shevchenko Knight (one of those Multilingual City Poets we were telling you about) leads this workshop which explores the poetic possibilities of jokes lost in translation.
Thursday 20 March
6:30pm-8:30pm – Third Annual Manchester Translation Series Reading. As well as a poetry reading, AE Stallings and Jeffrey Yang will discuss topics related to translation and the roles of literature in our current geopolitical moment.
