Ricardo Blanco's Blog

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