Balam and Lluvia's HouseMeet Balam, a boy who could be a cat. Meet Lluvia, a girl who could be the dawn. Balam and Lluvia are siblings who catch fireflies, bid farewell to their pet fish in the bathroom, and wait for Ratn Prez to collect their teeth. In Balam and Lluvia's House, the secret tastes and sounds of the everyday are waiting to be found. From the smell of crushed laurel leaves to the whispers of the peach tree in their back garden, every day is a day of discovery.

Atlantis is said to lie beneath the waves

Amalie Smith ignites everyday encounters into sites of revelation and metamorphosis

disrupt the reader’s expectations of where they are heading

Now I belong to those people who write in a learned language

Characters and events materialise and change as though a mist swirls around them: twins appear and disappear in 'Madagascar'

Formerly Chairman of the Welsh Academy of Writers

Much like The Poetry Book Society UK’s prestigious Next Generation Poets (which is published once a decade) this issue aims to offer the most comprehensive

It includes I Want to Be a Poetess of My People (1976)

asking us to consider the ways in which families and communities come together amidst such tragedy

As the prospect of promotion recedes and the threat of crime and lawless and rootless youth become ever more insupportable

Over the course of a fortnight

All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT