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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,