New Spanish Titles

The Twice Upon a Time collection is a second chance to tell well-loved traditional tales without sexism, inequality and violence.

This story based on real events and set in sixties’ Cuba. The revolution has been won and two boys with seemingly nothing in common become friends. Pedro Juan is athletic and strong, and Fabián is skinny, nervous and short-sighted; he plays the piano, he’s gay, and his Spanish parents immigrated to the island in the twenties.

A day seemingly just like any other brings together the last living hours of four poets: Cesare Pavese, Alejandra Pizarnik, Anne Sexton and Gabriel Ferrater. Like a black box, Poem’s End records the subtle moments leading up to their deaths. Little by little, silence and the loss of words fills everything, and each poet falls apart in their own way.

Pablo Ramos brings together all the ghosts from his past, which are also those of a society in which alcoholism and drug addiction form part of the fabric of daily life for its families and neighbourhoods. He brings them together and exposes them to show how it really is to live as an addict, the raw day-to-day behind the stigmatisation and complacency.