‘Life beyond the glass’: Darwin: A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel
Released in 2009 to celebrate Darwin’s bicentenary, Darwin: A Life in Poems is a selection of snapshots of the naturalist’s life, using quotations from his …
Andrew Elliott – Only Disconnect
Julian Stannard Part of the pleasure of reading Mortality Rate is knowing so little about the man who wrote it. Some official data: Andrew Elliott …
Tidings by Ruth Padel
The Voice of Silence I am the oldest angel, the dark side of the brain. Everything untold, suppressed, unseemly or wild is under my protection. …
Don Quixote Ventures Forth – Hugo Williams
Don Quixote Ventures Forth Once long ago at night I was excited by rain lighting the street for murder. Was it too late, I wondered, …
Three Poems by Karen Solie
Lowry at The Sylvia “… he knew how to act, and I how to write: we were destined for each other.” — Don Quixote de …
Two Poems by Jamie McKendrick
Something More “Thou must take notice, brother Sancho, that this adventure and those like it are not adventures of islands, but of cross-roads, in which …
The Curious Painter – David Shook
The Curious Painter In Mexicali’s evening heat your boards thirst for gesso, acrylics dry in seconds, and no amount of Tramadol will dull the wicked …
Don Quixote and the Arabs – Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel In a certain Spanish prison cell, in a town whose name we cannot remember, in Castro del Rio perhaps, or in Seville, a …
Extract from Miguel de Cervantes’ novella, El licenciado vidriera (Dr Glasscase) – Translated from the Spanish by Adam Feinstein
Translator’s note: Miguel de Cervantes’ peculiar tale of the man who believes he is made of glass is one of my favourite of his Novelas …
Quixote For Real – Deryn Rees Jones
Quixote For Real after Allen Ginsberg Came home, found Quixote in my living room. It’s happened, I said to myself in the silence. The light …