MPT 22: Poets at Bush House: the BBC World ServiceThe original intention with this issue had been to celebrate the World Service of the BBC to which MPT in its formative years, owed so much. The aim was to produce an issue which would represent a substantial selection of the many languages in which the BBC broadcasts from Bush House. (By the end of WWII the Corporation was already broadcasting in forty five languages.) When MPT was founded, one of its first ports of call was Bush House. We soon

Najwa Barakat Excerpt from A Busload of Good People

from the Breton ‘Itron Varia ar Porz-Gwenn’

The Ballerina

lives in London where she has formed Exiled Writers Ink

Knife Sharpener – Selected Poems is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus

Banipal 25 presents works by two prominent Libyan authors – the novelist Ibrahim al-Koni with an excerpt from the intriguing and challenging desert narrative The Seven Veils of Seth

and three short stories from Nihad Sirees

misunderstandings and oppressions of the spirit

out of an initial list of over 400

‘Curtain’ (after Brecht)

Here are political poems from the '70s and '80s which speak openly about the horrors of the Soviet system

Richard McKane