MPT 2/2015 (Modern Poetry in Translation): I Wish... (Children's Focus) Julia Bell

MPT 2/2015 (Modern Poetry in Translation): I Wish... (Children's Focus) Julia BellMPTs summer 2015 issue I WISH focuses on world poetry for children, with new translations of modern and classic childrens poems from Taiwan, Russia, Poland, Eritrea, Mexico and Holland, including Julian Tuwim and Toon Tellegen. Tellegens work is printed alongside the original artwork by Ingrid Godon. We also feature a selection of four Burmese women poets, curated by Pandora and translated by UK based poets Kim Moore, Carola Luther, Stephanie Norgate

and foil the killer before he strikes again

John Siddique

the clichés of our political rulers

for example

windflower petals tremble

ground-breaking and often controversial Welsh language author and translator

film maker and

a genre which includes some of her finest writing

('Pastoral')

Salmon Poetry)

Lamia Makaddam: Three Poems

he is also the Royal Literary Fund Writer for Queen Mary College University of London