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🌎 stay tuned~
We're working on stunning new translations of 3 brilliant poets from Ilankai, Sudan, & Pakistan
out in 2026 🌏
We're working on stunning new translations of 3 brilliant poets from Ilankai, Sudan, & Pakistan
out in 2026 🌏
"Finally, translation is also recognized as an act of resistance, speaking to the dislocation from homelands due to colonial actions, war, and migration, and the displacements of the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island."
- Joseph Schreiber
#Review
#TamilTerrains
#Bksky
#Poetry
#Translation
- Joseph Schreiber
#Review
#TamilTerrains
#Bksky
#Poetry
#Translation
The landscapes that shape us, the landscapes we carry with us: Tamil Terrains, Edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran @tracepress.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2026/02/05/t...
roughghosts.com/2026/02/05/t...
The landscapes that shape us, the landscapes we carry with us: Tamil Terrains, Edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran
Raging winds howl to the vakai trees as their pods tremble in fear. A land cloaked with countless peaks yet not an ounce of soul. It was this cold grim path that he, the ruler of my heart, chose ov…
roughghosts.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:47 AM
"Finally, translation is also recognized as an act of resistance, speaking to the dislocation from homelands due to colonial actions, war, and migration, and the displacements of the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island."
- Joseph Schreiber
#Review
#TamilTerrains
#Bksky
#Poetry
#Translation
- Joseph Schreiber
#Review
#TamilTerrains
#Bksky
#Poetry
#Translation
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The landscapes that shape us, the landscapes we carry with us: Tamil Terrains, Edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran @tracepress.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2026/02/05/t...
roughghosts.com/2026/02/05/t...
The landscapes that shape us, the landscapes we carry with us: Tamil Terrains, Edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran
Raging winds howl to the vakai trees as their pods tremble in fear. A land cloaked with countless peaks yet not an ounce of soul. It was this cold grim path that he, the ruler of my heart, chose ov…
roughghosts.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:15 AM
The landscapes that shape us, the landscapes we carry with us: Tamil Terrains, Edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran @tracepress.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2026/02/05/t...
roughghosts.com/2026/02/05/t...
Thanks to all who attended recent TO & online events for #TamilTerrains! An excerpt from Nedra Rodrigo's essay is up at @adimagazine.bsky.social & poems translated by Subhanya Sivajothy & Yalini Jothilingam are on @alllitupcanada.bsky.social poetry blog.
February 1, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Thanks to all who attended recent TO & online events for #TamilTerrains! An excerpt from Nedra Rodrigo's essay is up at @adimagazine.bsky.social & poems translated by Subhanya Sivajothy & Yalini Jothilingam are on @alllitupcanada.bsky.social poetry blog.
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Fitting to read Carney in the context of European interwar period, when Césaire wrote "it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it"
January 21, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Fitting to read Carney in the context of European interwar period, when Césaire wrote "it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it"
"...we lingered on those moments where the literary text acts as an archive of a cultural, historical, or artisanal experience. To translate them with a reverence for the archive seemed to be a form of resistance against the monolithic identities we are compelled to occupy in diaspora."
We're thrilled to share the essay "To Translate is to Resist" by Nedra Rodrigo, excerpted from TAMIL TERRAINS (@tracepress.bsky.social, November 2025) with artwork by Kaya Joan!
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...
To Translate is to Resist
I could not enter the practice of translation feigning ignorance of the myriad ways in which translation has served as a tool of surveillance, categorization, and suppression. As much as translation h...
adimagazine.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:34 PM
"...we lingered on those moments where the literary text acts as an archive of a cultural, historical, or artisanal experience. To translate them with a reverence for the archive seemed to be a form of resistance against the monolithic identities we are compelled to occupy in diaspora."
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We're thrilled to share the essay "To Translate is to Resist" by Nedra Rodrigo, excerpted from TAMIL TERRAINS (@tracepress.bsky.social, November 2025) with artwork by Kaya Joan!
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...
To Translate is to Resist
I could not enter the practice of translation feigning ignorance of the myriad ways in which translation has served as a tool of surveillance, categorization, and suppression. As much as translation h...
adimagazine.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:25 PM
We're thrilled to share the essay "To Translate is to Resist" by Nedra Rodrigo, excerpted from TAMIL TERRAINS (@tracepress.bsky.social, November 2025) with artwork by Kaya Joan!
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...
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"When contexts like our own become unfathomable to their contemporary subjects, seeking past texts can help reframe them, to offer solace through such untranslatable times, or perhaps usher in a word or two to help us understand, interpret."
- Yasmine Haj
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
#translation
- Yasmine Haj
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
#translation
The Four Colours of Blood: An Interview with Norah Alkharashi and Yasmine Haj on the Arabic Poetry of Love and War - Asymptote Blog
The more we bridge our languages, the more effective our collective resistance can be.
www.asymptotejournal.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:20 AM
"When contexts like our own become unfathomable to their contemporary subjects, seeking past texts can help reframe them, to offer solace through such untranslatable times, or perhaps usher in a word or two to help us understand, interpret."
- Yasmine Haj
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
#translation
- Yasmine Haj
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
#translation
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Thai Pongal
🌺🍚
To celebrate #TamilHistoryMonth do check out #TamilTerrains - our gorgeous community-centred bilingual collection of poems, translations & reflections that explore time, place, memory, labour & resistance.
🌺🍚
To celebrate #TamilHistoryMonth do check out #TamilTerrains - our gorgeous community-centred bilingual collection of poems, translations & reflections that explore time, place, memory, labour & resistance.
January 15, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Thai Pongal
🌺🍚
To celebrate #TamilHistoryMonth do check out #TamilTerrains - our gorgeous community-centred bilingual collection of poems, translations & reflections that explore time, place, memory, labour & resistance.
🌺🍚
To celebrate #TamilHistoryMonth do check out #TamilTerrains - our gorgeous community-centred bilingual collection of poems, translations & reflections that explore time, place, memory, labour & resistance.
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For #TamilHeritageMonth, we're sharing two poems from TAMIL TERRAINS (@tracepress.bsky.social), a new collection of poems, translations, and reimagined texts that trace the journeys of Tamil language and culture through migration, colonialism, labour, and love.
alllitup.ca/two-poems-ta...
alllitup.ca/two-poems-ta...
January 16, 2026 at 3:41 PM
For #TamilHeritageMonth, we're sharing two poems from TAMIL TERRAINS (@tracepress.bsky.social), a new collection of poems, translations, and reimagined texts that trace the journeys of Tamil language and culture through migration, colonialism, labour, and love.
alllitup.ca/two-poems-ta...
alllitup.ca/two-poems-ta...
Thai Pongal
🌺🍚
To celebrate #TamilHistoryMonth do check out #TamilTerrains - our gorgeous community-centred bilingual collection of poems, translations & reflections that explore time, place, memory, labour & resistance.
🌺🍚
To celebrate #TamilHistoryMonth do check out #TamilTerrains - our gorgeous community-centred bilingual collection of poems, translations & reflections that explore time, place, memory, labour & resistance.
January 15, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Thai Pongal
🌺🍚
To celebrate #TamilHistoryMonth do check out #TamilTerrains - our gorgeous community-centred bilingual collection of poems, translations & reflections that explore time, place, memory, labour & resistance.
🌺🍚
To celebrate #TamilHistoryMonth do check out #TamilTerrains - our gorgeous community-centred bilingual collection of poems, translations & reflections that explore time, place, memory, labour & resistance.
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Calling all translators of Southasian languages! Original submissions for Himal Fiction Fest 2026: Southasian Fiction in Translation are now open. Please help us to spread the word to applicants. Deadline: 1 April.
#SouthasianFiction #Translation #CallForSubmissions #SouthasianLiterature
#SouthasianFiction #Translation #CallForSubmissions #SouthasianLiterature
January 15, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Calling all translators of Southasian languages! Original submissions for Himal Fiction Fest 2026: Southasian Fiction in Translation are now open. Please help us to spread the word to applicants. Deadline: 1 April.
#SouthasianFiction #Translation #CallForSubmissions #SouthasianLiterature
#SouthasianFiction #Translation #CallForSubmissions #SouthasianLiterature
"When contexts like our own become unfathomable to their contemporary subjects, seeking past texts can help reframe them, to offer solace through such untranslatable times, or perhaps usher in a word or two to help us understand, interpret."
- Yasmine Haj
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
#translation
- Yasmine Haj
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
#translation
The Four Colours of Blood: An Interview with Norah Alkharashi and Yasmine Haj on the Arabic Poetry of Love and War - Asymptote Blog
The more we bridge our languages, the more effective our collective resistance can be.
www.asymptotejournal.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:20 AM
"When contexts like our own become unfathomable to their contemporary subjects, seeking past texts can help reframe them, to offer solace through such untranslatable times, or perhaps usher in a word or two to help us understand, interpret."
- Yasmine Haj
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
#translation
- Yasmine Haj
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
#translation
"...we wanted to create a space where translation isn’t just a bridge but a form of companionship, between poets, readers, and the worlds they inhabit, between languages that hold memory."
Norah Alkharashi, in conversation with Yasmine Haj & Alton Melvar M. Dapanas.
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
Norah Alkharashi, in conversation with Yasmine Haj & Alton Melvar M. Dapanas.
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
The Four Colours of Blood: An Interview with Norah Alkharashi and Yasmine Haj on the Arabic Poetry of Love and War - Asymptote Blog
The more we bridge our languages, the more effective our collective resistance can be.
www.asymptotejournal.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
"...we wanted to create a space where translation isn’t just a bridge but a form of companionship, between poets, readers, and the worlds they inhabit, between languages that hold memory."
Norah Alkharashi, in conversation with Yasmine Haj & Alton Melvar M. Dapanas.
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
Norah Alkharashi, in conversation with Yasmine Haj & Alton Melvar M. Dapanas.
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
"During those nights of bombardment, I understood translation as something more than literary craft: it was an act of resistance, of staying put, of holding on."
- Amir Mehdi Hagighat.
- Amir Mehdi Hagighat.
A moment that changed me: in the bombed-out ruins of an apartment block, I saw a book I’d translated
The sight of my work, torn and singed but still legible, made me realise the importance of translating and protecting stories – so they remain when everything else falls away
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:49 PM
"During those nights of bombardment, I understood translation as something more than literary craft: it was an act of resistance, of staying put, of holding on."
- Amir Mehdi Hagighat.
- Amir Mehdi Hagighat.
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Newly announced, Arvon's programme of day time online retreats - a whole month worth of Thursday's in March will bring @mailbykite.bsky.social & I into your writing room - bringing support, guidance & workshops for your wip or something new @arvonfoundation.bsky.social www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Online Writing Month (daytime): Writing the Body | Embodied Place Writing | Arvon
To be able to connect with place, it is not possible to ignore the body that carries you there, that arrives and that journeys through, however that might happen. It is impossible to ignore the human ...
www.arvon.org
December 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Newly announced, Arvon's programme of day time online retreats - a whole month worth of Thursday's in March will bring @mailbykite.bsky.social & I into your writing room - bringing support, guidance & workshops for your wip or something new @arvonfoundation.bsky.social www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books Bad Land by Corinna Chong (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social) & River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation, ed. Nuzhat Abbas (@tracepress.bsky.social & contribs @mailbykite.bsky.social @wordsweaver.bsky.social @rahat.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
January 11, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books Bad Land by Corinna Chong (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social) & River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation, ed. Nuzhat Abbas (@tracepress.bsky.social & contribs @mailbykite.bsky.social @wordsweaver.bsky.social @rahat.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
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79 authors have withdrawn from Adelaide Writers Week now, that we know of - others are rumoured to have done so without declaring so publicly, if you’re wondering why different numbers are floating around. More than half of the festival gone. sakr.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
January 10, 2026 at 6:29 AM
79 authors have withdrawn from Adelaide Writers Week now, that we know of - others are rumoured to have done so without declaring so publicly, if you’re wondering why different numbers are floating around. More than half of the festival gone. sakr.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
"To imagine a (re)connected left across bookshops, women’s centres, unemployed workers’ centres, and more. To have those spaces rooted in vibrant discussion and solidarity, with strong community foundations, reinforced by mutual trust and respect."
@newint.bsky.social
@newint.bsky.social
Where is the left?
Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton.
newint.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:32 AM
"To imagine a (re)connected left across bookshops, women’s centres, unemployed workers’ centres, and more. To have those spaces rooted in vibrant discussion and solidarity, with strong community foundations, reinforced by mutual trust and respect."
@newint.bsky.social
@newint.bsky.social
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: See alt-text. @tracepress.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @vincenzo.bsky.social @intifadabatata.bsky.social @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social @lenakt.bsky.social #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booklovers
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
somewhere in our collections, this postcard from the 1980s.
January 4, 2026 at 12:11 AM
somewhere in our collections, this postcard from the 1980s.
remember the farce of last year's Nobel peace prize?
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
remember the farce of last year's Nobel peace prize?
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In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
January 3, 2026 at 3:21 AM
In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
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ICYMI
🌎 stay tuned~
We're working on stunning new translations of 3 brilliant poets from Ilankai, Sudan, & Pakistan
out in 2026 🌏
We're working on stunning new translations of 3 brilliant poets from Ilankai, Sudan, & Pakistan
out in 2026 🌏
January 1, 2026 at 2:37 PM
ICYMI
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Better late than never: 2025 Wrap Up: Reading and other stuff @sarabandebooks.bsky.social @tracepress.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social #seagullbooks, #newdirections
roughghosts.com/2026/01/02/2...
roughghosts.com/2026/01/02/2...
2025 Wrap Up: Reading and other stuff
I don’t know what I expected when this year began. Ever since 2020 it seems we have greeted each year with some measure of optimism—I mean how could it be worse than the one that just …
roughghosts.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Better late than never: 2025 Wrap Up: Reading and other stuff @sarabandebooks.bsky.social @tracepress.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social #seagullbooks, #newdirections
roughghosts.com/2026/01/02/2...
roughghosts.com/2026/01/02/2...