MPT’s spring issue ‘Dream Colours’ focuses on Japan, featuring two of Japan’s most popular post-war poets, Shuntaro Tanikawa and Noriko Ibaragi; new work by Sawako Nakayasu; an essay by Polly Barton on the complications of translating Japanese concrete poetry; and a poetic manifesto regarding dreams from the surrealist Shuzo Takiguchi (1903–1979). Also featured: Chris Beckett introduces the young Ethiopian poet Misrak Terefe; Kit Fan translates Bei Dao’s ‘June’ in the light of Hong Kong’s recent protests; and a tribute to Elaine Feinstein’s translations of Marina Tsvetaeva by Sasha Dugdale. All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.