Robin Munby

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Translator. Raitán. Swappin' yarns tae cowe the gowan.

Rayo, Republican and Palestine flags ready to be packed for a trip to the Europa Conference League final in Leipzig
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
Screenshot from the page of The Dial where María García Díaz's translations, referred to in the post, are published
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
An extract from Angelina D'Roza's poem Fairytale No. 13: Forgive me whoever, I’m trailing impure thoughts along the river like bindweed.
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.
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.
Picture of the poem 'Song for an Irish Red Killed in Sicily' by Hamish Henderson
Screenshot from a video of Robin Munby holding a copy of the novel Anima Fatua whilst recommending books at Desperate Literature bookshop
Screenshot from review of Anna Lidia Vega Serova's Anima Fatua in the Morning Star
Screenshot from the poem 'Machado Version 2 [A orillas del Duero]' published in Pamenar Online Magazine
Photograph of the poem [But Drowning] from the sumer 2025 issue of The Paper
First page of the poem Paniceiros by Xuan Bello in English translation
Poster for an event at the Selmana Negra literary festival in Xixón at 9pm on 11 July to launch the new issue of Formientu literary magazine
Screen shot with event info: Anima Fatua, Friday 27 de junio, 20h, with Anna Lidia Vega Serova and translator Robin Munby
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
A cardboard box containing author and translator copies of the novel Anima Fatua by Anna Lidia Vega Serova, and a lot of foam popcorn
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'