Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.16) The Dialect of the TribeThe latest issue of Modern Poetry in Translation takes as its theme the so called minority languages and cultures of our modern, globalised world. It explores a wide variety of viewpoints translated poems, brief essays, anecdotes, photographs and a wide range of issues: causes for lament, anger and revolt, but also for celebration, worldwide and perennial. At the heart of the matter lies the struggle for what John Clare called self identity, a chief

His first collection

I will lose my mind

with Lapwing in 2007

was published in 2003

offering us both curative herb and wise prophecy”

Majella Cullinane was born and raised in Limerick

Little known in the West

A phone call from a distant hospital summons him to the bedside of his father

Margaret Obank Yasser Arafat Looked at Me and Smiled by Yussef Bazzi

Huda Ablan

writing out a clear and present labyrinthine voice that goes beyond even what the words themselves convey

and bound up with his own family drama