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The Secret History of Costaguana
A few months ago I gave up reading novels, but over the summer I cheated and devoured two, both of them very slowly, my preferred mode of literary consumption. The first was Flaubert’s Sentimental...
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The Sound of Things Falling
The Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia has a thesis in which he claims that every successful story contains within it another story. The first story narrates the action of the plot, while the second...
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Midday: story of a kidnapping
Bogotá is the kind of place designed to make you feel conspicuous if you are toting a camera around. I have heard and read too many bad things, even if the place is considerably safer than it has been...
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Medellín, drugs and arse cake
Medellín, once the domain of drugs baron Pablo Escobar, where I am attending the International Poetry Festival, is also the city of Fernando Botero, the painter and sculptor of all things obese....
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Epic poetry and canine aficionados
Posting a few pictures as a last offering from my trip to Colombia: The approach over Santo Domingo by cable car, with the city of Medellín beyond. Wall grafitti, Santo Domingo Bank note ‘Mil Latinos...
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Where are the others, Señor British Citizen?
Landing at Bogotá must be quite challenging for an airline pilot. The city is on a plane high in the Andes, and both times I’ve landed here we’ve come down with a bump. Lonely Planet online warns its...
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Landscape with Beggars
Landscape with Beggars Juan Manuel Roca The good people wonder Why a tattered rabble of beggars Block their prospect of the lilies. If they don’t receive their ration of manna, It’s due to their...
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