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Stephen Romer

Stephen Romer was born in 1957 and was educated at Cambridge.  He has four published collections of poetry with the Oxford Poets imprint of Carcanet Press and is the editor of the Faber anthology Twentieth-Century French Poems. His acclaimed translation of Yves Bonnefoy's The Arriere-pays was published last year (Seagull Press, 2012), and his French Decadent Tales, new translations of fin-de-siècle stories, is due from Oxford World Classics in Spring 2013. He regularly writes on French literature and modern poetry for the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.



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A Black Hat, Silence and Bombshells : Michael Hofmann at Cambridge & After

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January 2013

Stephen Romer

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January 2013

The black hat and the black coat I was familiar with, before I knew their owner. It was Cambridge, the beginning of the Michaelmas...

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July 2012

Ways of Submission

Saskia Vogel

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July 2012

On a pale marble fountain in Dubrovnik, I posed. I pretended I too was a stone figure, water gushing...

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June 2014

A Grenade for River Plate

Juan Pablo Meneses

TR. Jethro Soutar

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June 2014

El Polaco appears brandishing his Stanley, as he lovingly calls his pocket knife. Five young hooligans huddle round him...

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October 2013

A World of Sharp Edges: A Week Among Poets in the Western Cape

André Naffis-Sahely

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October 2013

In Antal Szerb’s The Incurable, the eccentric millionaire Peter Rarely steps into the dining car of a train steaming...

 

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