Q&A with Gary Raymond
Last month I was interviewed by the excellent Gary Raymond for his BBC Radio Wales Arts Show (listen here) and last week we did a Q&A in anticipation of our chat at the Abergavenny Writing Festival tomorrow. For… Read More
Fiction Fiesta 2013
The poster for the second Fiction Fiesta is ready. Fiction Fiesta is an intimate but international festival, specializing in fiction and poetry in translation. The plan is to team novelists and poets from Latin America with writers from… Read More
Burying poverty and misery
The banner photograph at the top of Blanco’s Blog was taken last year in Granada, Nicaragua at the VII International Festival of Poetry, towards the end of a rather hectic afternoon, on which misery and poverty were… Read More
Ricardo Blanco’s Blog
- Raids on the Underworld
- Invisible Dog by Fabio Morábito
- Further reflections on waking at 4.00 a.m.
- Illustrious insomniacs: 4.00 o’clock or whatever time in the morning
- The Future is Dark: Woolf, Solnit, Darrieussecq . . . and the Lucy Letby trial
- On moving home, the sorrows of Gaza, and a poem about kindness
- To be always the same person
- The last Welsh speakers of the Black Mountains
- Narrative Horror
- What’s in a name?
Richard Gwyn is the author of Ricardo Blanco's Blog
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