Wrap It in Banana Leaves: the Food Focus (No 3, 2022)Wrap It in Banana Leaves features a focus on food poetry, with new translations of Adriana Lisboa, Lena Yau, Fu Hao, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jhio Jan Navarro, Birendra Chattopadhyay, and AW Priatmojo. Our first Language Justice column is by historian and food writer NA Mansour, on the ethics and emotions involved in translating food words under present day colonialism; there is also an essay by Salma Harland, on her translation in this issue of

Carrick-Varty takes an object/a loved one/a particular moment in time and carefully turns it over and over in his hands

Inaam Kachachi – The American Granddaughter

who has lived in exile in Germany since the early 1970s

with the majority of its print run destroyed during Nazi occupation

Salim Barakat Excerpt from the novel Hydrahodahose Caves

The poems in The Middleman refuse to take sides

the ‘work hard play hard culture’

featuring some of Scotland’s leading writers such as Karen Campbell

each one of us can make a difference

Amy’s Last Dive (2012) was inspired by aviatrix Amy Johnson

adding to the body of superior work by Irish writers living abroad

But was an innocent man wrongfully convicted of this horrific crime