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Call the Sea a Poet: Focus on Malta (No.2, 2023) Christopher Payne but it speaks to theCall the Sea a Poet highlights Maltese poetry in translation and in English, including work by Nadia Mifsud translated by Miriam Calleja and Luke Galea; Antoine Cassar; Maria Grech Ganado; Leanne Ellul translated by Helena Camilleri; and Immanuel Mifsud, translated by Ruth Ward and Immanuel Mifsud. Adrian Grima contributes both an essay, Of Reach and Richness, which includes the Maltese languages connections to various Arabics, and a poem in Albert