MPT's summer issue, 'The Previous Song: Focus on Somali Poetry' includes new poems by Asmaa Jama and Hibaq Osman, translations of Amran Maxamed Axmed and Xasan Daahir Ismaaciil 'Weedhsame', an introduction to the lyrics of Qaraami - the popular music of Somali culture - and Ayan Salaad's translations of Ali Osman Drog's womens' songs. Also: new translations of Tove Ditlevsen, Meret Oppenheim and Mona Kareem, poems in response to the invasion of Ukraine, and Olivia McCannon translates Louky Bersianik's Cold War sequence 'Ruins of the Future'. All this and more in the ground-breaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.

MPT's spring issue 'Clean Hands' focuses on the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe, featuring the Stanza/MPT Windowswap Project; a conversation between Simone Atangana Bekono and Jay Bernard about the language of lockdown; and new poems and translations from across the continent including Jan Wagner, Stella N'Djoku, David Harsent, Safiye Can, David Constantine, Agnes Agboton, and many others. Also: an introduction to Uyghur poetry curated by Munawwar Abdulla, Naush Sabah's version of 'Qasida Burda', and climate change poems by Marion Poschmann, translated by Jen Calleja. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.

MPT's autumn issue `In a Winter City' marks the 20th anniversary of our co-founder Ted Hughes' death, with responses to his translations by Tara Bergin, Zaffar Kunial and Polly Clark. We also fulfil his plan to have a Hungarian focus, with new translations of work by Krisztina Toth, Agota Kristof and Andras Gerevich, as well as Margit Kaffka's forgotten feminist masterpiece `While We Wait for Sunrise, 23rd May 1912'. Also in this issue: a stunning translation of Simone Atangana Bekona by David Colmer, poems by Mona Arshi after the Mahabharata, and Chris McCabe brings Villon into the 21st Century. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.

Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.

No one knows this better than Madame Marie d'Aulnoy. Each week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fées - fairy tales - that challenge the status quo, at a salon that will change the course of literature forever. But while they weave tales of glass slippers, enchanted beasts and long-haired princesses, a wolf is lurking, who threatens to destroy the members of the salon one by one.

Brilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, The Modern Fairies is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.

MPT's summer issue 'If No One Names Us' focuses on Mexico, and includes new translations of legendary figures such as Pita Amor and Nahui Olin, as well as contemporary poets including Natalia Toledo, Elena Poniatowska, Tedi Lopez Mills and Mikeas Sanchez, and contributions from British LatinX poets including Juana Adock and Leo Boix. Also: poems in response to CK Norwid's centenary, a new translation of Jacques Jacques Brel's 'Amsterdam', Endre Ruset's concrete elegies for those who died in the terrorist attack at Utoya, and 'Butterfly Valley', a gorgeous sonnet redouble by Inger Christensen. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.

MPT's spring issue, 'The Fingers of Our Soul', includes a focus on bodies guest edited by Khairani Barokka and Jamie Hale, featuring signed languages such as ASL, BSL, LSF and BISINDO, Anthony Price's translation using the medium of eye-gaze, and Salma Harland on the blind poet al-Ma'arri. Poetic forms include dagli from Filipino poet Stefani J Alvarez and the picture-poems from Hoshino Tomihiro. Also: long poems from Geet Chaturvedi and Shooka Hosseini, Andrew Nielsen's version of Du Fu in tribute to Roddy Lumsden, and Dzifa Benson reviews Maria Stepanova's War of the Beasts and Animals. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.

MPT's spring issue 'Dream Colours' focuses on Japan, featuring two of Japan's most popular post-war poets, Shuntaro Tanikawa and Noriko Ibaragi; new work by Sawako Nakayasu; an essay by Polly Barton on the complications of translating Japanese concrete poetry; and a poetic manifesto regarding dreams from the surrealist Shuzo Takiguchi (1903-1979). Also featured: Chris Beckett introduces the young Ethiopian poet Misrak Terefe; Kit Fan translates Bei Dao's 'June' in the light of Hong Kong's recent protests; and a tribute to Elaine Feinstein's translations of Marina Tsvetaeva by Sasha Dugdale. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.

MPT's autumn issue, 'Origins of the Fire Emoji', has a focus guest-edited by the Dead [Women] Poets Society, and will bring voices from all corners of the world back to life. From Enheduanna, a high priestess from ancient Mesopotamia who is the first recorded poet, to Suzannah Evans' essay on 'Resurrecting' Nadia Anjuman, via Sappho, Ho Xuan Huong, Marina Tsvetaeva, Lakshmi Holmstroem, Noemia de Sousa and many more, you are invited to join the seance. Also featured: Ali Al-Jamri's new translation of Aboul Qassem Al-Shaabi's influential poem 'The Desire of Life'. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT

MPT's spring issue 'Profound Pyromania' features a focus on Caribbean poetry, including new translations from James Noel, Legna Rodriguez Iglesias, Monchoachi, Franketienne, Pierre Lauffer and Lalbihari Sharma's Holi Songs of Demerara; poems in English creoles from Raymond Antrobus and Fawzia Muradali Kane, and an essential conversation between Shivanee Ramlochan and Rajiv Mohabir about `polyglottal inheritance', divinity and the diaspora. Also in this issue: exquisite translations of Jacques Tornay by Annie Freud; the `late work' of Heiner Muller, and a spotlight on three Baltic poets, featuring stunning new poems by Tomas Venclova, Karlis Verdins and Maarja Kangro. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.

MPT's spring issue 'Our Small Universe' focuses on the many languages of the United Kingdom - from Romani to Welsh; Shetlandic to BSL; Turkish to Ulster Scots - and features Owen Sheers, Zoe Brigley, Liz Berry, MacGillivray, David Morley, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi and Matthew Hollis. Cyril Jones and Philip Gross collaborate using the Welsh `englyn' form, and Sophie Herxheimer writes in her Grandmother's `Inklisch'. Also: an introduction to Rohingya poetry, Zeina Hashem Beck's bilingual form, the Duet, and a new translation of Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski's major modernist poem `A Trip to Swider' by Renata Senktas and Christopher Reid. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.

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