The Magic Theatre Karin Slater

The Magic Theatre Karin Slater1976: just as the Sex Pistols are about to release Anarchy in the U. K., James Harpur arrives at Trinity College, Cambridge, to read Classics. As if stepping onstage in the strangest of theatres, he finds himself acting in a play without knowing what his part is to be. Changing to study English, the poet finds an education in unlikely places: a broken love affair; excruciating meetings with professors (and his father); initiations into Brahms and

Together these short narratives become a mosaic of a life in contemporary Japan

making the invisible

It connects literary translation to its siblings in other creative arts to show how creative and subjective a practice it is while upholding the ethics and politics at play when we translate someone else’s work

an absurd space when looked at with logic

saw the thick of battle in Sicily and Normandy

how different people function in the workplace

For the past number of years he has directed Féile na Bealtaine

That he is out and trying to engage at all feels like some kind of triumph

individual guilt

It is hard-hitting poetry

Fadhil al-Azzawi: Poems from Bedouins under an Alien Sky _with appreciation by Khaled Mattawa

McCabe leaves the safety of streetlights behind and walks in the footsteps of William Morris and W