Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.10) The Big Green Issue John McAuliffe translated by Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese

translated by Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese

These days most of us earn our daily bread sweating over spreadsheets

Issa Makhlouf

Paul Chaoul – Excerpt from the play The Visitor

Nathalie Handal: Poem

Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.10) The Big Green Issue John McAuliffe translated by Elzbieta Wójcik-LeeseMigration at the very first stirring my airtight, upright sarcophagus breaks into pieces, each fragment starting to turn green even as it falls Martii Hynynen, translated from the Finnish by Mike Horwood Modern Poetry in Translation Third Series, No. 10 is dedicated to the beauty, abundance and plight of Mother Earth. This autumn MPT will be truly internationalist. Work from all quarters, out of as many languages as possible, will demonstrate an