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of our contributors to this issue for their patience and wonderful work. Artist and carer Liliana Dmitrovic has allowed us to feature images of her beautiful embroidery as the cover art for this issue, for which we’re very grateful. Also many thanks to our outgoing Editor Khairani Barokka for her brilliant commissioning and selection of much of the material in the front section of this issue. To the MPT Board, who are also a back-stage presence who give so much of their time and expertise to MPT for free, thank you. And to the team – Ed, Chloe and Debbie, who sustain and warm me up continually. Sameness can be a burden. It can also be a vital joy. About the cover: Our cover image for this issue is by Liliana Dmitrovic. Liliana’s current work explores ideas of remembering, belonging and not belonging, the language of symbols and principles we embrace or reject. The piece ‘Songs of the three colours’ is part of this exploration, of looking for clues of how we are. Liliana grew up with women who did sewing and kni ing and crochet. Embroidering the songs created the direct connection to those other times. There are now 1 4 songs of the three colours and they can be read or sung in any order. To fi nd out more about her work, visit h ps://eljaydeeart.wordpress.com editorial 5
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NAJWAN DARWISH Translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid from Arabic I am very pleased to present in English translation three poems by Najwan Darwish, one of the most prominent Arab poets writing today. His work is inextricably bound up with his homeland of Palestine, the endless Occupation, and the countless horrors that have been imposed on its population, including those of the present moment. His relationship with the land and its history is a complex one, as we can see here, for it is a place of loss as much as anything else, and it is only ‘doubtfully’ that one can even call it a country. 6 najwandarwish

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of our contributors to this issue for their patience and wonderful work. Artist and carer Liliana Dmitrovic has allowed us to feature images of her beautiful embroidery as the cover art for this issue, for which we’re very grateful. Also many thanks to our outgoing Editor Khairani Barokka for her brilliant commissioning and selection of much of the material in the front section of this issue. To the MPT Board, who are also a back-stage presence who give so much of their time and expertise to MPT for free, thank you. And to the team – Ed, Chloe and Debbie, who sustain and warm me up continually. Sameness can be a burden. It can also be a vital joy.

About the cover: Our cover image for this issue is by Liliana Dmitrovic. Liliana’s current work explores ideas of remembering, belonging and not belonging, the language of symbols and principles we embrace or reject. The piece ‘Songs of the three colours’ is part of this exploration, of looking for clues of how we are. Liliana grew up with women who did sewing and kni ing and crochet. Embroidering the songs created the direct connection to those other times. There are now 1 4 songs of the three colours and they can be read or sung in any order. To fi nd out more about her work, visit h ps://eljaydeeart.wordpress.com editorial 5

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