Streets Where to Walk Is to Embark: Spanish Poets in London Chen Chen a wryly stoic observation

a wryly stoic observation

Many of his friends were killed and he spent eighteen months in an army detention centre

even though he has lain in a peat bog since the start of the Iron Age

The Illegal Age chronicles the arrival of a new

the playgrounds of the gods

Streets Where to Walk Is to Embark: Spanish Poets in London Chen Chen a wryly stoic observationI bring together here a wide selection of poems written about the city over the past two centuries by Spanish poets. The starting date had to be 1800 as I couldnt find anything written earlier. The poems had to be recognisably about the city. There are probably many more poems written in London by Spanish poets, but I wasnt about to enter into an archaeology of creation or sift through biographies, a task beyond the scope of this anthology: I wanted