MPT: No. 1 2016: The Great Flight, Refugee Focus

by Sasha Dugdale (Editor), Gëzim Hajdari (Contributor), Basuki Gunawan (Contributor)

MPT’s Spring 2016 issue The Great Flight features a focus on refugee poetry - poetry by refugees and about the plight of refugees and migrants. With new translations of Ribka Sibhatu, Hama Tuma, Golan Haji and Amarjit Chandan, plus prose by Nasrin Parvaz and Don Mee Choi.

Also in this issue: Shetlandic translation by Christina de Luca, versions of Rābiʿah al-Baṣrī by Clare Pollard; Juan Gelman, Louise Labé and Indonesian poet Basuki Gunawan.

189 pages, ebook

First published April 21, 2016

About the author

Sasha Dugdale is a poet and translator. She has published five collections of poetry with Carcanet (UK), the most recent, Deformations, is shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She is a translator of Russian drama and poetry, including work by Elena Shvarts, Maria Stepanova and Marina Tsvetaeva, and former editor of the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.