The Previous Song
MPT no. 2 2022
Published on 8. July 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-910485-33-0 (ISBN)
Description
MPT's summer issue, 'The Previous Song: Focus on Somali Poetry' includes new poems by Asmaa Jama and Hibaq Osman, translations of Amran Maxamed Axmed and Xasan Daahir Ismaaciil 'Weedhsame', an introduction to the lyrics of Qaraami - the popular music of Somali culture - and Ayan Salaad's translations of Ali Osman Drog's womens' songs. Also: new translations of Tove Ditlevsen, Meret Oppenheim and Mona Kareem, poems in response to the invasion of Ukraine, and Olivia McCannon translates Louky Bersianik's Cold War sequence 'Ruins of the Future'. All this and more in the ground-breaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-910485-33-0 (9781910485330)
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