After a brief introduction - covering the pros and cons of machine translation and challenges in translating poetry - participants will choose a non-English language poem to work on. Using a literal machine translation (provided), the challenge will be to turn the clunky machine translation into poetry. Time permitting, volunteers will be invited to perform their poem. 

Terry Bradford teaches French, translation, & interpreting at the University of Leeds. He has been a professional translator since 2001. In recent years, he has indulged his passion for translation by focusing on translating literature. Wakefield Press (USA) have published four of his translations. LUP have published his translation "Otherwise I Forget" by Clémentine Mélois. He is a regular contributor of short translations (including poetry) and pseudo-translations to US-based Journal "Typo". 

This is a Leeds City of Languages Festival event. Check the full programme at leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk