The Previous Song (No 2 2022)MPTs summer issue, The Previous Song: Focus on Somali Poetry includes new poems by Asmaa Jama and Hibaq Osman, translations of Amran Maxamed Axmed and Xasan Daahir Ismaaciil Weedhsame, an introduction to the lyrics of Qaraami the popular music of Somali culture and Ayan Salaads translations of Ali Osman Drogs womens songs. Also: new translations of Tove Ditlevsen, Meret Oppenheim and Mona Kareem, poems in response to the invasion of Ukraine, and

first published over a decade ago

It covers the American trail-blazing artists of the twenties and thirties

beginning shortly before the birth of her son

From Australia to Antarctica

Part memoir

Steven Waling

Aged forty-nine

the country’s Minister of War

yet his knowledge of space is far beyond his years

Robert Hamberger

The Covid-19 epidemic brought with it tragedy for some

He lets us share his ambivalence towards a moment in history when the past and the possible future are in contention