The Cure, ‘Killing an Arab’, and The Others
Sometimes the past just won’t leave you alone. When I lived in London – a long, long time ago – I went to a lot of gigs and occasionally had walk-on roles as a ‘poet’ with bands… Read More
Ricardo Blanco’s Blog
- Poems for staying at home (Day 33)Bunnies and top hats, David Lynch and the dark reverberations of down the rabbit hole; all of this explored by the inimitable Pedro Serrano in this quarantine poem, first published in The Other Tiger. The Rabbit and... Read More
- Poems for staying at home (Day 32)Today’s poem: a perfect study in stillness, by the Mexican poet Coral Bracho. Goats In the whiteness and its nucleus of light the goats stand stock-still. Gently the rock holds them in its palm; like a... Read More
- Poems for staying at home (Day 31)As we find ourselves in June, two bumblebees, observed by the Mexican poet Pura López Colomé, hover over ‘rose coloured leaves / from a flower that is not a rose.’ And the Anthurium, Undaunted Two bumblebees... Read More
- Poems for staying at home (Day 30)After the weekend, this cow rummages through the debris left by the visiting humans; the remains of campfires, plastic carrier bags, bottles and beer cans. We know, we’ve seen it. Poor cow. Fabio Morábito reminds us of... Read More
- Poems for staying at home (Day 29)Today Piedad Bonnett sings the praises of the oft-neglected sea cucumber. I once spent so long trying to find her house in Bogotá, in a taxi with Jorge Fondebrider and a clueless driver, that she thought we’d been... Read More
Ricardo Blanco, Citizen of Nowhere
