The Tangled Route

MPT's autumn issue 'The Tangled Route' focuses on Uruguayan poetry, with a selection of new translations of Liber Falco, Horacio Cavallo, Paula Simonetti, Marielle Nigro, Laura Chalar, Laura Cesarco Eglin and Ida Vitale. The translations are accompanied by a conversation between Laura Chalar and Laura Cesarco Eglin on exile, identity and literature in a country whose literature is often associated with migration. The issue also features selections of poems by the Russian sci-fi writer Fedor Svarovsky, Iraqi poet Mariam Alatar's fierce engagement with contemporary Iraq, Sangram Jena's lyrical memories of India and Spanish novelist and poet Pilar Adon's troubled landscapes. All in this new issue of the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.