The Transformation Review

05/28/2026

📢 Calling all translators - we need your views and insights on our campaign.

Five years on from its launch, we’re working with Dr Pete Freeth (London Metropolitan University) to find out more about the campaign’s impact.

Pete’s project starts with an all-important survey for translators, exploring perspectives on the campaign and experiences with front-cover credit.

Your responses will give us vital insights into the current state of front-cover credit and will help us provide members with further support to achieve front-cover credit in future.

The survey is open until Friday 19 June and should take around 15 minutes to complete.

https://buff.ly/uRuoZ1O

05/23/2026

05/23/2026

05/23/2026

The 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings are right around the corner! ✨

📅 June 3 | 🕖 7:00 PM ET
📍 Live in Toronto at Koerner Hall or via YouTube livestream
🎟️ Tickets: https://www.rcmusic.com/concert/2026-griffin-poetry-prize-readings-439801

With live readings by:

✨ Gbenga Adesina

✨ Daniel Borzutzky, Alec Schumacher, and Elvira Hernández

✨ Aracelis Girmay

✨ Joseph Kidney, the 2026 Canadian First Book Prize winner

✨ Ange Mlinko

✨ Kevin Young

✨ Raúl Zurita, this year’s Lifetime Recognition Award recipient

✨ Melody Ovuakporoyecha, a 2026 finalist from Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poésie

Join us in celebrating excellence in poetry from across generations and around the world.

📖 Ticket includes a copy of the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology.

🥂 Complimentary refreshments will be served from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., and during the book signings following the Readings.

✨ Raúl Zurita will participate in the Readings alongside his translator, Anna Deeny Morales, as part of a live performance by internationally acclaimed Armenian-Canadian pianist and composer Eve Egoyan, with filmmakers Lior Shamriz and Chloé Griffin paying homage to Zurita’s poetry throughout.

Not in Toronto? Tune into the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/AysjdKJTGWE?si=ImQX4CqVUSiw6QJj

05/18/2026

Now on YouTube! View the opening event of ARTHUR SZE's second term as U.S. Poet Laureate: a reading and conversation with U.K. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage at the Library of Congress!

Together, these remarkable poets shine a light on the imaginative brilliance of ancient and contemporary poems alike, and they show us how translation can spark our own creativity as writers! Both poets also read from their latest translation projects: ARTHUR SZE's TRANSIENT WORLDS (available now at https://bit.ly/4dqRnJt) and Simon Armitage's new verse translation of Gilgamesh!

Watch it now for free at: https://bit.ly/4uh3y2K

05/16/2026

[untitled]No line, no half-word in your language, nor another’s,Only an ever-expanding terrain that dazzles the eyesAnd the sheep that escaped the Odyssey chew up this continentWhile the salt-sea licks the shoreline, saturating wounds.

05/15/2026

05/15/2026

Spend some time with these three poems by Ricardo Aleixo, translated from Portuguese by Dan Hanrahan. First published in 2018 in our issue “Another Country: Afro-Brazilian Writing,” these poems consider how identity is shaped by an individual's internal and external worlds and offer a toolkit of resistance against oppressive environments.

Find all three poems—“My Man,” “I Know You By Your Scent,” and “Night of Calunga in the Bairro Cabula”—as well as a video of Aleixo reading here: https://buff.ly/LJm8yxq

05/14/2026

Seagull Books published a new translation of Sylvie Kandé's work last month titled, Gestuary, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson. Fans of her work may want to take this opportunity to read Gestuary and compare it to Kandé's The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos, translated by Alexander Dickow in 2022.

Order the Neverending Quest for the Other Shore now at https://www.weslpress.org/9780819580740/the-neverending-quest-for-the-other-shore/!

05/14/2026

On May 6, 2026, Raúl Zurita was announced as the 2026 Lifetime Recognition Award recipient. Raúl Zurita will participate in the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings with his translator, Anna Deeny Morales. Their reading will be part of a live performance by internationally acclaimed Armenian-Canadia...

05/14/2026

Legend has it that Solon — the wise statesman who established, in the sixth century BCE, the foundations of Athenian democracy, and a poet himself — was once at a symposium (an aristocratic male drinking party) when he heard his nephew sing a poem by Sappho. Dumbstruck by the intensity of the po...