Translation of the Route: Reading and Conversation with Laura Wittner and Juana Adcock, Oxford

Translation of the Route is the first collection by award-winning Argentine poet Laura Wittner to be available in English translation. In poems that are precise, frank and finely tuned, Wittner explores the specificities of daily life – thunder at night, coffee stains, fleeting conversations and the rest – as well as parental love, life after marriage, and the reignition of the self in middle age.

Laura Wittner is joined by her translator, the Mexican-Scottish poet Juana Adcock, for a dual-language reading from Translation of the Route and Q&A chaired by Georgina Fooks. The event will be followed by a drinks reception hosted by the Queens College Translation Exchange. Copies of Translation of the Route will be available to purchase from independent Oxford bookshop Caper at the event.

Georgina Fooks is a current DPhil student in Spanish at the University of Oxford, researching twentieth-century Latin American poetry and translation. As a writer and translator from Spanish, her work has been published in Asymptote, Hopscotch Translation, and The Oxonian Review. She is the Director of Outreach at Asymptote and has studied poetry translation at the BCLT Summer School.

The Poetry Translation Centre gives the best contemporary poems from Africa, Asia and Latin America a new life in the English language, working with diaspora communities for whom poetry is of great importance. 2024 marks the PTC’s 20th anniversary.