Category: Articles
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Early doors day
(This poem was first published in Burrow here at Old Water Rat’s Publishing ) soft lines of fog trees not the desert but quiet like the desert we look at the stars to see what we come from body not yet the enemy light slowly befriends you
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“The role of culture in Europe’s crisis.” (My translation.)
Below is my translation of *Marcelo Expósito’s contribution to the session on "Diplomazia Culturale dell’UE", as part of the meeting: “How Can We Govern Europe?” held at the Camera Dei Deputati, Rome, November 18, 2016. (*Marcelo Expósito is a Deputy for Barcelona from En Comú Podem and is the Third Secretary of the…
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Portrait of an Asturian miner
[This article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, December 2016.] The coal miner’s wife wakes him and he coughs. He shuffles to the small bathroom sink and spits black liquid, washing it away with with the brown tap water. Last night he slept badly, suffering from stomach cramps, diarrhea and vomiting again.…
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Between Two Fires
This book is exactly the kind of thing you would hope to find when you are aimlessly looking through the shelves in that slowly dying place called a bookshop. Focusing mainly on the area around his adopted home town of Frigiliana David Baird has used immaculate research to write in compelling detail…
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Albania’s pain
[This article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, November 2016.] When I was a curly-haired (and more ignorant) twelve year old in the Cold War years of the early 1980s, one day our History teacher asked the class a general knowledge question: “Who is the world’s longest-serving current dictator?” Nobody had the…
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On trust and the grape
(This article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, September 2016.) People trust each other where I live. I’m not talking about the kind of confidence where no one needs to lock their doors. I mean that where I live you don’t see that look of suspicion in the eyes of a stranger that…
