MPT Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of NatureMPTs issue Rhythms of the Land, with a focus on the poetry of nature, features Memento Poem by Kenzabur e and new translations of Marina Tsvetaeva, alongside poems by Cindy A. Velasquez, Claudia Magliano, Dalia Taha, Maarja Prtna, Elena Salamanca, Hkan Sandell, Piedad Bonnett, Yan Li, Emi Miyaoka, Begoa Ugalde, Gabriela Ruivo, Rifat Abbas, Ashu Lal, Sanwal Gurmani, Tauqir Reza, Ali Asadollahi, N. S. Sigogo, Ali Akkour and Subhro Bandopadhyay. The

and the first recipient of an Arts Council jazz bursary

A chorus of narrators – commoners

"Williams’ writing is off-beat

film and design whilst also being haunted by the then emerging ecological crisis in its juxtaposition of the beauty of nature with the reckless consumption of modernity

‘Spring 1946’

In addition to being a poet

dubbed the “Jon Snow” of Trinidad

in the voice of a character with the capacity to deceive everyone

further enhanced by the generous quantity of family photographs that say

real and imagined: Stanley Spencer in Cookham

they may be bug-eyed monsters from outer space

not everyone died