Modern Poetry in Translation July Issue: Salam to GazaMPTs July issue Salam to Gaza spotlights poetry of dissent featuring Jennifer Manoukians translations of Missak Manouchian published in English for the first time, Cristina Vitis translations of Batool Abu Akleen, a radical young voice from Gaza, a poem by Hussein Bhargouthi translated by Suneela Mubayi. Also: poems by Henri Michel Yr, translated by Todd Fredson from French and Nouchi, a new translation of Yi Sang by Jack Jung, an essay by Raul Zurita

‘Of Reach and Richness’

Borrowed Time by Hassan Daoud

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The poems are in turn sensual

So much so that a number of lines from both of them have transgressed into these versions

in North London

He has published work in a wide variety of journals and anthologies and has won a Welsh Arts Council Prize for Literature

his first major collection in English

a forthright and intimately observed narrative of Nichols’s partner as a trans teenager in an unwitting decade

acutely observed poems that give weight to domestic minutiae and put words to helpless howls into the abyss

Ticker-tape is a maximalist take on 21st century living

‘A remarkable autobiography which blends loathing and love in an evocation of the city