The first story I read by Borges, at the age of eighteen, was Tlön, Uqbar, Tertius Orbis. Although the name would have meant nothing to me at the time, the translation was by Alastair Reid. Forty years later,… Read More
Posted on August 19, 2014 by richardgwyn
THE QUESTION by Tom Pow How do people live? He was standing two in front of me in W. H. Smith’s and what he wanted to know was, How do people live? He asked the question as if… Read More
How do we construct a life as we go along? The things we do and say, the actions that make us who we are? Sometimes all of this is bewildering. I look for clues everywhere, including under… Read More
Posted on March 22, 2012 by richardgwyn
Sometimes a short poem hits the mark, for no particular reason, and without providing any easy way of explaining to others the random pleasure it delivers. I am looking through Postales, an intriguing book of… Read More
Posted on February 24, 2012 by richardgwyn
Here are a few pictures from Wednesday’s carnival in Granada, Nicaragua, where The Tears of Disenchantment (or broken-heartedness) were buried, allegedly. … Read More
Posted on February 18, 2012 by richardgwyn
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
Posted on February 9, 2012 by richardgwyn
The birthday card I received from Mrs Blanco this year shows a partly hidden figure reclining in an armchair, cats in attendance, dwarfed by an enormous bookcase that, it is suggested, continues into the vastness of infinity…. Read More
Posted on July 24, 2011 by richardgwyn
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