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Two brilliant books about very different forms of forced displacement are out this month on either side of the Atlantic: The Refugee Chronicles by Evgeny Shtorn, published in Ireland by @skeinpress.bsky.social and Brais Lamela's What Remains, published by @dorothyproject.bsky.social in the US

Cover image of What Remains by Brais Lamela

Cover image of The Refugee Chronicles by Evgeny Shtorn

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Madrid (and everywhere else), 2026

Photograph of an excerpt from David Magarshak's 1954 translation of Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

JH Prynne, bard of the eclipse

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This translator is going to Leipzig...

Rayo, Republican and Palestine flags ready to be packed for a trip to the Europa Conference League final in Leipzig

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

‪I'll be at @desperatelit.bsky.social on Saturday talking to Odile Cisneros about translating the itinerant, polyglot (and really bloody fun) verse of Brazilian avant-garde poet Haroldo de Campos. Come with us now on a journey through time and space... desperateliterature.com/events/

Event poster for a book presentation with Robin Munby and Odile Cisneros, translator of Galáxias by Haroldo de Campos, which will take place at Desperate Literature bookshop in Madrid on 16th May at 8pm

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Thanks to @thedialmag.bsky.social for publishing these poems - small moments scattered into glistening shards of affect - by Asturian poet María García Díaz, from her ridiculously beautiful collection All That Flows Is Capital (...yet to be published in English!) www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Screenshot from the page of The Dial where María García Díaz's translations, referred to in the post, are published

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Salú, República y poesía n'asturianu ❤️💛💜 www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Screenshot of part of a poem in Asturian by María García Díáz:

Quiciabes si fuéremos natives
na mesma llingua
si cada actu de fala nun sufriere
una gota
performatividá

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Raquel's collection was first publsihed in Asturian in 2017, and I've been enjoying its resonances with my current read - Angelina D'Roza's Envies the Birds, published in Sheffield (and launched at The Fat Cat, one of my favourite pubs) just a year before, in 2016. We're all after absolution...

An extract from Angelina D'Roza's poem Fairytale No. 13:

Forgive me
whoever, I’m trailing
impure thoughts
along the river
like bindweed.

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Oh and also this is published today, very appropriately the day after Nowruz! #asturianu skeinpress.com/product/the-...

A photograph of a poem from The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad by Raquel Menéndez:

Of all my sins,
absolve me of the dying owls
this spring.

Because I too am an owl,
and I have nothing but the feathers to show for it.

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Ha! I bumped into him on the way home from the pub on Christmas eve... Scared the absolute shite out of me

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Made up that @englishpen.bsky.social included Anima Fatua in its list of recommendations for International Translation Day! You can get hold of all the recommended books via their page on @bookshop.org uk.bookshop.org/lists/new-re...

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

For #ITD2025 you could do worse than the three new mask-poems by Xaime Martínez, translated from Asturian and available to read at Versopolis, along with several more from his weird and wonderful poetry collection/detective novel Cuerpos perdidos en las morgues www.versopolis.com/poet/606/xai...

Stanza from the poem 'Xota of the Mask' by Xaime Martínez:

pan, pan, pan, pan,
pan, pan, pan, pan.

As the geometric beats peter out,
the Guirria appears amid the rocky hillsides.
A posse of lads on horseback come following single file,
they ask for gifts, letting out cries and rattling off tunes on empty bottles of anís.
The Guirria jumps, wool cascading spume-like from his lips.

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

#BisexualVisibilityDay seems like a good day to celebrate poet, Gramsci-translator, folk archivist, and bisexual Scottish red Hamish Henderson 🩷💜💙 (picture is from his Collected Poems, 2020, edited by Corey Gibson)

Picture of the poem 'Song for an Irish Red Killed in Sicily' by Hamish Henderson

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Had a great time at @desperatelit.bsky.social recommending some books I feel share a kinship with Anna Lidia Vega Serova's Anima Fatua (albeit a kinship of the weird/inscrutable sort that maybe only exists in my mind, but surely that's the best kind anyway...) www.instagram.com/p/DOi_IoSDMf3/

Screenshot from a video of Robin Munby holding a copy of the novel Anima Fatua whilst recommending books at Desperate Literature bookshop

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

If you're knocking about in London tomorrow, there'll be signed copies of Anna Lidia Vega Serova's Anima Fatua on sale at the Pushkin House Bookshop stand, and a load of other brilliant bookshops and publishers at the Multicultural Book Fair at Conway Hall

Screenshot from review of Anna Lidia Vega Serova's Anima Fatua in the Morning Star

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

If you pop into Good Press in Glasgow this summer, or order a book from them online, you will also get a free copy of the summer issue of their beautifully designed little newsletter, The Paper, which has two little poems of mine in it!

Photograph of the poem [But Drowning] from the sumer 2025 issue of The Paper

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

This is an English translation of one of Xuan Bello's poems, also titled Paniceiros, after his hometown, translated by fellow Asturian poets Laura Marcos and Daniel García Granda

First page of the poem Paniceiros by Xuan Bello in English translation

Second page of the poem Paniceiros by Xuan Bello in English translation

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Gente de Madrid! This Friday at 8pm I'll be at @desperatelit.bsky.social talking to Anna Lidia Vega Serova, who is over from Havana to celebrate the publication of the English translation of her novel Anima Fatua linktr.ee/AnimaFatua

Screen shot with event info: Anima Fatua, Friday 27 de junio, 20h, with Anna Lidia Vega Serova and translator Robin Munby

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Publication day (!!!) for Anna Lidia Vega Serova's Anima Fatua, and a sighting in the wild at Liverpool's legendary News From Nowhere! And in great company, beside @wowfest.bsky.social's Walton Rising

Copies of the novel Anima Fatua by Anna Lidia Vega Serova on a table at News From Nowhere bookshop in Liverpool, surrounded by various other books, and beside copies of the Walton Rising anthology

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Well this is all very exciting... linktr.ee/AnimaFatua

A cardboard box containing author and translator copies of the novel Anima Fatua by Anna Lidia Vega Serova, and a lot of foam popcorn

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Made up that my translation of Anima Fatua by Anna Lidia Vega Serova featured in Leo Boix's brilliant Letters from Latin America column today in @mstaronline.bsky.social, and in such brilliant company. The book comes out in the UK on 12th June! morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lett...

Screenshot featuring the covers of three Latin American books reviewed by Leo Boix in the Morning Star, with the headline 'Radical imagination, displacement and desire, and firecracker poetry'

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Hilariously, Ange Mlinko also published a poem featuring worms and vector-transmitted pathogens (and robins!) in the new issue of the LRB www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

For the new issue of Asymptote, I turned Machado's 'El hospicio' into a weird poem about a parasitic worm www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feat...

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