MPT Presently Proximal Person: Focus on Experimental TranslationsMPT No. 1 2025 Presently Proximal Person focuses on experiments with translation, afters, plays with form, translations of the avant garde (taking into account the complications of different cultures languages), translational transgressions and everything else that seeks new possibilities in poetry and translation. An issue filled with speculations, surprises, leaps of syntax, and mor

Saadi Youssef speaks about his relations with Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

Lewd and clear

under the direction of the late Prof

its emotional grammar and its painful but necessary rituals

Hussain al-Mozany Portrait of poet-publisher Khalid al-Maaly

translated in myriad ways by Sidekick Books' many talented scribes

sexuality and self-discovery emerges

and why this delicate connection just might be the most important relationship of our times

looks back on his life at the court of the Song dynasty in 12th-century China

Guest writer is Gibraltarian poet and translator Trino Cruz

With unsparing self-analysis he describes the traumas that accompanied his brilliant career for many years

Faina Grimberg