Poets from the floor welcome.
Timothy Adès translates mainly French, German and Spanish poems into English, tending to work with rhyme and metre. Tonight he will be reading from new books translations from German poets Ricarda Huch, Ringelnatz the Rhymer and Hans Sahl.
He has written 14 books to date translating Robert Desnos, Victor Hugo, Jean Cassou, Alfonso Reyes, and Alberto Arvelo Torrealba.
Other favourites are Brecht, Sikelianós, Nerval, Louise Labé, Ricarda Huch, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Hans/Jean Arp.
He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Trustee of Agenda poetry magazine.
His awards include the John Dryden Prize and the TLS Premio Valle–Inclán Prize.
