Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.12) Freed Speech Phillip Crymble Cover artist is Jaber Alwan

Cover artist is Jaber Alwan from Iraq

translated by Khalid al-Masri

Khaled Mattawa – Seven Poems

Rashid al-Daif: excerpt from the novel Learning English

writer and artist

Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No.12) Freed Speech Phillip Crymble Cover artist is Jaber Alwan2009 sees the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One of those rights is freedom of speech. This issue of Modern Poetry in Translation celebrates speech that has been freed. Poetry and translation, working together, have often been the means and the best expression of that liberation. 'Freed Speech' features examples from past and present, from all over the world, from all manner of circumstances, of people being enabled