Category: Articles

• January 3, 2024

  Barcelona’s cannibal restaurant and murderous barber

  Legend has it that a certain inn was known for the quality and cheapness of its meat dishes. (Please note: No AI was used in my translation of this article.) There are two old mansions on a Barcelona street named Pou de la Figuera. They seem to stand somewhat isolated among the many modern buildings…
• September 30, 2023

  90 seconds exactly

  (My translation from the Catalan original “Tot just noranta segons” with the author, Antoni Cardona) When Nadia was running downstairs from the 6th floor, doing up her dressing gown, cursing the wind and her mistake she came across the boy from door 4, floor 4 the one who never says good morning She put the…
• September 24, 2023

  The Sobremesa Podcast: “More than Quixote – unusual books on Spain with David Price from Secret Kingdoms”

  Really informative chat with a guy who clearly knows his literature (and I don’t just say that because because he’s complimentary about my latest work here.) He also briefly talks about: Miguel de Cervantes – The Banks of Algeas/ The Great SultanaMaría de Zayas y Sotomayor – Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of DisillusionMaria Dueñas- a Vineyard…
• July 16, 2023

  Video: Launching my book “Slow Travels in Unsung Spain” in Barcelona
• June 19, 2023

  Launch of my latest book (in Barcelona)

  I’m happy to say I’ll be launching my non-fiction book, “Slow Travels in Unsung Spain” at this unique independent bookshop:Fahrenheit 451 (C/- de la Ribera, 8, [El Born] BARCELONA  [Metro: Barceloneta]  Friday, 3Oth June, 7.00-8.00PM. We’d love to see you there! (Look inside the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NJG91W7/ )
• May 11, 2023

  May poem

  don’t believe in anything you can’t take apart
• February 12, 2023

  Grabbing Granados

  [This article* was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, Feb. 2023.] A huge boat is sinking in The English Channel. A man is clinging on to the side of a tiny raft, only big enough for one woman to kneel on. Soon, both drown in sight of other passengers. According to witness Daniel Sargent, this…
• February 7, 2023

  Pandemic poem

  (30 Jan. 2022) cut        down cut down to bone cut off to spite it and cut off from cut away to put away just to stay away cut          out cut out your needy cut me down I’m not cut out for it
• January 29, 2023

  La mà que va signar el paper* (The Hand That Signed The Paper) by Dylan Thomas

  (*Translated into Catalan below with Antoni Cardona) La mà que va signar el paper va enderrocar una ciutat; Cinc dits sobirans van posar taxes a l’alè, Van duplicar els morts a la terra i van partir pel mig un país; Aquests cinc reis van fer que morís un rei La poderosa mà porta a una…
• January 18, 2023

  Christmessi

  [This article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, January 2023.] Is the legend now complete? Is it a case of all praise to The Great One, Lionel Messi, the Messiah of Argentina, Saviour of Rosario and FIFA-family favourite? On the whole it seems so, but like so many public figures, this 35 year old…