Among the GliesiansPhilip Fried continues experimenting with different registers of language, technical jargon, and a variety of literary and non literary forms, ranging from sonnet, ballad, acrostic, and villanelle to press release and report. His witty and compassionate work takes on a new urgency, however, as he focuses on our alarming present situation. Dealing with such topical themes as mass shootings, nuclear gamesmanship, and threats to democracy, Fried's poems

And what a language

And when Avatar’s narratives of the experiences of his past selves are revealed to have an authenticity that cannot be explained away

in Pachuca

people who still have too much to hide

Thomas Kinsella

or when we no choice but to stay put

with five plays produced to date in Ireland and the US

and join Helen

innocence and complicity

Alex Ferguson was born in Jarrow and lives in South Shields

They might be set alongside the Mother Tongues issue of MPT as testimony of the packed plethora of voices in the British Isles today

The Last Migration