Tag: Spain
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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…
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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
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Captured
[A version of this article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, January 2021.] “I’m the only foreigner in the Catalan government,” Italian, Francesca Bria used to sometimes say when introducing herself to a public audience. In the two years leading up to the pandemic, her team’s work on “digital sovereignty” for people living in the Catalan…
Brett Hetherington 