MPT May Issue: Bearing the Burden of Sameness by Alexander Moffat and Ruth Nicol

MPT May Issue: Bearing the Burden of Sameness by Alexander Moffat and Ruth NicolMPTs May issue Bearing the Burden of Sameness spotlights the poetry of care. Featuring Rachel Rankins new translations of Brynjulf Jung Tjnns experiences of adoption in Norway, the myth of the Chinese river snail reborn in Tuoya Wulans version of Xinyang Wu, and Beth Hickling Moores translation of Carla Nymans radically physical poetry of the body. Also: brand new translations of Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish by Kareem James Abu Zeid, Olga

In Harvest in Wilderness

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission is trying to make sense of over 30 years of human rights violations

Jamal Mahjoub – A short story In the Long Shadows

bring a selection both paying homage to the tradition of the ghost story and placing it firmly in the context of our own times

Mr Malgas clears the land

is a series of 'muse' poems that are inspired by lines or images from the Italian poet

young lovers and elderly lovers

' Daas says

Máirtí Ó Direáin

undid the pocket and retrieved

Thuraya al-Baqsami and Fawziya Shuwaish al-Salem

Daughters evokes laughter and tears by way of life and death