This hands on, experimental course will include: ‘translating’ English-language poetry into new English-language poems, making poems into and out of collages, creating poetry from sound, transforming short fiction and factual texts into poetry, and actually translating poems into English using pre-made ‘gloss’ translations from foreign-language poems.

Jen Calleja is a writer, literary translator from German, editor and musician. Her debut poetry collection Serious Justice (2016) was published by Test Centre and shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in Ambit, 3: AM and The Best New British and Irish Poets 2016 (Eyewear). She is currently working on a follow-up collection and a novel. She has translated book-length works by Wim Wenders, Gregor Hens and Kerstin Hensel and is currently translating a novella and poetry by Michelle Steinbeck. She is the inaugural Translator in Residence at the British Library, columnist for translation at The Quietus, and has previously spoken on translation and poetry at the Wellcome Collection and Tate Modern. She is also contributing a chapter for a book on cross-modal translation forthcoming from Palgrave MacMillan.