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Martin Chalmers
Martin Chalmers was born in 1948 and grew up in Glasgow. He was an award-winning translator of Austrian, German and Swiss literature into English and a writer of essays. He translated authors as diverse as Elfriede Jelinek, Ernst Weiss, Alexander Kluge, Thomas Bernhard, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Peter Handke. Martin Chalmers died in Berlin in 2014. Together with Esther Kinsky he wrote the book Karadag Oktober 2013, a geopoetic exploration of Crimea, published in 2015.

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Issue No. 8

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Jack Underwood

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Issue No. 8

Two years ago I was walking up a mountain path having been told of excellent views from the summit....

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March 2017

Slogans

Maria Sudayeva

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March 2017

A Few Words on Maria Sudayeva   Slogans is a strange, extraordinary book: it describes a universe of total...

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January 2017

Peace

Patrick Cottrell

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January 2017

Every morning as I walk to school through the dark blue decrepit world, I feel like I’m coming down...

 

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