MPTs 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 Prices translation using the medium of eye-gaze, and Salma Harland on the blind poet al-Maarr. 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 Nielsens version of Du Fu in tribute to Roddy Lumsden, and Dzifa Benson reviews Maria Stepanovas 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.
