The Play of Waves by Immanuel Mifsud, trans. by Maurice Riordan Rebecca Watts ’ Sean O’Brien

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The Play of Waves by Immanuel Mifsud, trans. by Maurice Riordan Rebecca Watts ’ Sean O’BrienThe 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