MPT 1/2013 (Modern Poetry in Translation): Strange Tracks Malek Haddad

MPT 1/2013 (Modern Poetry in Translation): Strange Tracks Malek HaddadMPT (Modern Poetry in Translation) is a tri annual poetry magazine that publishes poetry from all over the world in English translation. Founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort it has consistently published the very best of world poetry in the very best translations, and has introduced a number of famous poets and iconic translations to the English speaking world. MPT prints work of unsurpassed range and quality. Over the last decade it has

Afghanistan and North Africa to Europe

And a powerful read it is too

Speculatrix is at once the voyeur and the observed

Faustin Charles has been a significant voice in Caribbean poetry

vague green as it fluffs and swirls coarse sand

As well as ensuring the continued performance of the many classics of the form written over the past four decades

He has also translated the Everyman Classic Egils Saga

at the National Theatre and West Yorkshire Playhouse

this collection includes essays about being writers and readers in exile

and appeared in several paintings by Diego Rivera

This is the moving conclusion to Andrew Salkeyís quartet of childrenís novels about the natural and manmade cataclysms of Jamaica

a villanelle but you'll also chance across a pantoum or a ghazal