The December 2024 edition of TMR includes some of the best poems, haiku and short story remarkable for their splendid imagination and rare bits of poetic beauty. These writings by contemporary international authors, selected for this latest issue, are full of amazing vitality and power. Several poems and haiku reveal most impassioned moods of authors, devoid of stilted, ornamental language and phrases.

Congratulations to extraordinary author Han Kang, the Nobel prize winner. The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, South Korean author, for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

The following lines from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), a long poem by Ezra Pound, aptly reveal that the poet finds himself "out of key with his time" due to the fact that it is impossible for his poetry to flourish in a "half-savage land".. The corrupt society and mass culture finds poetry irrelevant:

For three years, out of key with his time,
He strove to resuscitate the dead art
Of poetry; to maintain “the sublime”
In the old sense. Wrong from the start
No, hardly, but, seeing he had been born
In a half savage country, out of date;
Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn;
Capaneus; trout for factitious bait:

It is my humble duty to express my gratitude and thanks to the international poets and creative artists. Many thanks for your kind and gracious support for this latest edition of TMR. No doubt, without the kind cooperation of all authors included in this edition the publication was not possible.
Best Wishes
SANTOSH KUMAR
Editor