The Play of Waves by Immanuel Mifsud, trans. by Maurice Riordan Iliad individually on our bodies –

individually on our bodies – and of the instinct to preserve wounds as a mark of respect

and through her to the women

and in the emptiness where a tree once stood

embracing both the depth and the beauty of the original

Paula Meehan’s extraordinary new collection is both a controlled experiment with the challenge of form and

The Play of Waves by Immanuel Mifsud, trans. by Maurice Riordan Iliad individually on our bodies –The Play of Waves is a collection of poems written over the period of five years by Malta's most distinguished poet, Immanuel Mifsud. It falls into six sections: the first consists of mainly lyrical poems; the second explores mental instability and the fluidity of the Self; the third is a sequence of travel poems; the fourth focuses on the dialectic of body spirit; the fifth consists of poems about sex and sexuality; and the sixth and final section is