Trafika Europe 9/10 - UK in Europe

TRAFIKA EUROPE 9/10 - UK IN EUROPE Editor’s welcome Admittedly, this special issue of Trafika Europe with focus on the UK in Europe is motivated by recent events – yet you won’t find much discussion of EU politics here. Trafika Europe wants to help uphold a spirit of unity, belonging and mutual regard across European literary cultures – regardless of how our politics plays out – because that’s our actual underlying reality. What we find, conducting this reality check is that the UK remains fixed in cultural unity with Europe, never more so than now. Among the UK poets in this issue, Diane Sanders comes from the wild north of Wales, Matthew Duggan is from Bristol, and Mark Murphy from Ireland. Acclaimed English author Adam Thorpe (“My favourite... English novel is by Adam Thorpe,” says Karl Ove Knausgaard) was actually born in Paris,

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