Dreaming of Dead PeopleIn the middle of life although this is only thirty six and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and the rapture: these are her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the medieval masks of Owl, signifying winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. In attendance are dreams of rustic places and once dear animals. But it is no ordinary procession, for her childhood comes

In this issue of MPT we show many of the ways and means by which a literary transplant's chances of survival may be increased

blue passports

We were sad also to announce the death on 14 March 2006 of the pioneering Iraqi author Mahdi Issa al-Saqr

train their eagle-eyes on life at the margins

and Artistic Director of Scarf magazine

And will drinking from it save Roan’s mum

the banality of love

Proof of Life on Earth is the much-anticipated debut by widely published poet Degna Stone

It’s utterly gripping

Haris Vlavianos

the same way again

“This is a true European comic novel in the best tradition of P