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Litro #106: Catalan
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Two Poems by Dolors Miquel
Translated by Peter Bush
Mammal with Flea
I God, the mammal,
look agog at the universe and invisible things
and at the flea on the belly ...
An extract from Body Hunter Meets Galician by Najat El Hachmi
Translated by Peter Bush
I’ve met lots of Galicians working in that factory, but I found mine in a disco a long way from the city where I live, and ...
Teresa Solana – The Party
Translated by Peter Bush
This time we’d agreed I would go and collect Borja at his place, naturally wearing my new suit, and from there we’d go to Mariona’s. The homage ...
Montserrat Roig – The Song of Youth
To Drs Nolasc Acarin and August Andrés
Before the final night comes to a close for me,
I turn my back on the ominous day that is today;
so degraded
it ...
I Come From A Silence by Michael Eaude
In 1958, a 17 year-old working-class lad from Xàtiva, an industrial town in the province of Alacant (Alicante), wrote an apparently conventional teenage song about riding pillion on a motor-bike. ...
Litro #106: Catalan, Past Events
Listings: May 2011
Get transported back in time this month, from The Blitz, to the Prohibition, to the golden era of the romantic poets, and Victorian magic lantern worlds of story-telling, in this ...
Quim Monzó – A Hunger and a Thirst for Justice
The fact he had been born into an aristocratic family didn’t mean Robin Hood couldn’t hate social inequality. From childhood, he’d always felt indignant when he saw how the poor lived ...
Joan Sales – The Aragonese Front, 1937
Translated by Peter Bush
Castel de Olivo, 19 June
Iam in excellent health, but as full of grumbles as a sickly child.
I can’t tell you how much I have suffered serving in ...