The deadline has been extended until midnight Monday 9 August to recruit eight young mixed-heritage people with an interest in polylingual poetry to develop their practice as poets or spoken word performers.

Undertow: Polylingual Poets Please is headed by Mexican-British poet and translator Juana Adcock. The programme will help eight young mixed heritage poets, aged 16-26, with a series of workshops and surgeries.

Undertow is the Poetry Translation Centre’s youth programme. When the PTC was set up, its founder, the poet Sarah Maguire, set one of its goals to ‘ginger up’ English poetry with an infusion of creativity from other languages. More details