LandfillIf the history of civilisation has been a journey away from our rubbish, John Wedgwood Clarkes Landfill seeks to reverse that journey; to get us behind the chain link fence of the dump and witness the sublime mess weve made of things. Clarke marvels at the confessions of a people, at archaeology in the making, with poems about old cookers, fridges, fluorescent tubes and heaps of plastic bottles. Out of their usual locations, these objects become

which centre stirringly on the agricultural organiser Joseph Arch

and bright young poet Andrew Wynn Owen

then a place rich with symbolic and mythic meaning

MPT’s spring issue features a focus on Caribbean poetry

and can be fantastic or grotesque

FEATURE ON SYRIAN LITERATURE

our ecosystems and to our fellow humans

What does it mean to look across a border and bring a young life towards you

Pawlo Tychyna

still grievous

Raymond returns to Jamaica but restless questions begin to unearth inside him (Who I am now is something I need to remember)

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