MPT 2/2019 (Modern Poetry in Translation): The Illuminated PathsMPTs summer issue The Illuminated Paths focuses on emerging poets of the Maghreb, with poems written in Arabic, Arabic dialect and Tamazight, and translated as part of the British Councils Majaaz project by Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Martha Sprackland, Adham Smart, Vidyan Ravinthiran and Stewart Sanderson. Also: an introduction to Dalit poetry curated by Gopika Jadeja, Judith Wilkinsons translations of Toon Tellegen, Maria Stepanovas weird ballads, and

Canadian and American magazines

and a persistent hallucination in the form of a gnome

writes Lebanese writer and journalist Youssef Bazzi in the Editorial

and taking in Antarctica too

but The Redeemer ventures out into the city’s underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage

After a lifetime working as a professor of Arabic literature and a translator of contemporary Arab authors into English

Paul Henry was born in Aberystwyth and came to poetry through songwriting

a pictorial record taking shape through the power of thought

the girl from Hull who flew around the world

John Hicks

a ravenous language-machine eating up the margins of the city

Iquela and Paloma