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Is there a Women’s Literature in Post-modern Spain? The Writers’ Response

MAZAL OAKNIN The “special” and double-edged position of “women’s literature” – it is at once highly marketed and rendered invisible – makes critics uncomfortable and makes authors wonder whether the...

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Maria-Mercè Marçal: To Translate Is a Vital Choice

TRANSLATION JON MOORE The paradoxical, and often conflictive, regard and disparagement between the translator and the poet may only be understood from a creative superficiality or literary ignorance....

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Some pictures of the launch

Check out the pictures of the launch of Alba Londres #02 taken by Francesca Moore & get your copy of the magazine! To get your copy you will need a PayPal account. Click here to get your copy. Alba...

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Translations of Amy De’Ath’s Caribou

El cristal alto Eres el cristal más claro, solitario y alto, y eres libre, y estás pálido, más pálido que un montón de chicas jóvenes fregando, condensándose al máximo en una lágrima inmensa, eres el...

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Translation of Pablo Neruda Poem ‘X’

X (From Twenty Love Poems) We lose this night one hand slips from the others in a blue surrender through the pane the distant peaked sunset by chance some light hot money grasped – transitory and...

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Tony Lopez

When You Wish . . . Boxes can seem to be presents but bars get you the weight of just-solid emulsion brand name moulded in negative. She leans back and shuts her eyes in silky excremental colours – say...

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Translations of Catalan Poetry

Salvador Espriu Poem XX from Cemetery at Sinera Thorn shrub and holly, hidden snow and thin air of tramuntana. Seaside winter: fragile sun over deserted beaches. tr. Harry Gilonis Joan Salvat-Papasseit...

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Launching Alba Londres #03

The CPRC Birkbeck are happy to invite everyone to the launch of Alba Londres #03 The event will take place on the 30th of November From 7pm to 9pm Room 632 in Birkbeck main building, University of...

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EL PESO DE LAS PALABRAS

MONTSERRAT ABELLÓ Traducción: Jonay Sevillano (find the English version in Alba Londres #03) Traducir poesía es un trabajo muy gratificante para mí. Cuando lo hago, de algún modo intento conseguir lo...

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Hallucinated Horse: New Latin American Poets

by Tom Slingsby “El caballo alucinado da cuerda, ciertos nombres, van y vienen” – Javier Norambuena To the Puerto Rican poet Nicole Delgado and I, Javier’s giddying equine dream seemed an apt emblem...

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Alba Londres 04 on sale

Get a copy of Alba Londres #04: The Humboldt Current Bilingual edition of the Chilean poets: Andrés Anwandter Gustavo Barrera Calderón Javier Bello Julio Carrasco Carmen García Send to UK: Send overseas:

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Javier Bello

Trans. by VALENTINO GIANNUZI from letrero de albergue Behind thought lies a broken stick. A stick washed by the tide to the foot of the bed. Glasses are portraits where the dead ask after their hands....

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Alba #04–Chilean Poets: The Humboldt Current

Trans. by JESSICA PUJOL This publication is the result of a meeting of Chilean poets in London ‘The Humboldt Current’, held the first week of June 2013. It is named after the current that goes through...

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