Barcelona INK is a magazine featuring writing from and about Barcelona.
"A tribute to the vitality of that other Barcelona." Patricia Gabancho, Avui
"A curious and worthy project." Anima, Canal 33
"Created with a pleasing touch of eccentricity."Jordi Punti, El Periodico.
The Best of Barcelona INK
published by Catalonia Press now on sale
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ONLINE COPIES OF NUMBER 8 NUMBER EIGHT SOLD OUT...
There are a handful of copies, if that, left in the bookshops mentioned below.
In these straitened times of austerity or bust, we continue to defy the odds with number eight of the INK. This issue is an eclectic mix, including experimental fiction from William Bain, an interview with the nomadic Australian novelist Steve Toltz who is said to have written his Booker-prize short-listed novel under a palm tree in Parc de la Ciutadella, and a curious essay on the Catalan national dance -La Sardana- by John Langdon-Davies. The issue opens with a short story from Stephen Burgen featuring that all-too-familiar Barcelona miscreant: the bag snatcher, and closes with a selection of translations of poetry from well-known local women poets including Rosa Lentini, Teresa Pascual and Mariana Colomer. But perhaps the most surprising line in the whole magazine was written in 1846 by the Hispanist Richard Ford: 'The Catalan public is no great reader.' Unbelievable.
This issue is now only available from Come-in Books, LAIE Pau Claris, La Central Raval.
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Originally started as a trimestral publication, The INK is now produced twice a year. Not only does the magazine aim to have articles about and by well known writers connected to the city in some way - in this category we could mention Toibin, Orwell, Rupert Thompson and many more - but to act as a platform for new writers exiled in a city which has provided them with a new set of cultural references. We also occasionally highlight the work of Catalan writers and poets who we like. The result, we hope, is a small and beautiful thing, an object of interest and curiosity to those passing through and an eagerly awaited magazine for those who have taken root.
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