Nottingham poet & British Sign Language translator to take part in Int. Translation Day event
Elvire Roberts , a poet and British Sign Language translator and interpreter from Nottingham will be taking part in Journeys in Translation, an event that is being held at the African Caribbean Centre in Maidstone Road, Leicester on September 30, to mark International Translation Day 2017. The event is being held as part of Everybody's Reading, Leicester's nine-day festival of reading. As part of the event, Elvire Roberts will translate two poems, Pam Thompson 's "Dislocation" and Trevor Wright 's "Yalla", from English into British Sign Language. International Translation Day is held around the world annually on 30 September. For the Journeys in Translation , 13 poems were selected from Over Land, Over Sea: Poems for those seeking refuge , a poetry anthology published in 2015 by Nottingham's Five Leaves Publications. The poems have since been translated into more than 20 languages. The poems are also being 'translated' in