Without going to university or studying music in an academy, he became the “Greatest minstrel of the Cuban Trova” and the king of the “double meaning”. And he bequeathed 31 fun and loving compositions to the culture of his homeland and to Cuba. María de Lourdes Legrá Faustino […]
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Cavafy: Exquisite and cryptic poetry
A victim of homophobia, warmongering and the cancer that pursued him until he succumbed, Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 – 1933) is a famed Greek-language poet whose work was barely read during his own lifetime. Despite which, his greatness would come to be widely recognised. Antonio Paneque Brizuela Ignored […]
Building an environmentally sustainable society
Today we are on the cusp of total environmental disaster on our planet. Life in all its forms is deteriorating, and nothing is happening to change this despite a multitude of voices demonstrating for change. John Elvis Vera S.* Neither governments nor other responsible bodies are taking the […]
Melancoly and yearning
It may be a musical myth that Robert Zimmerman took the name Bob Dylan after the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Sean Sheehan Just as uncertain is whether he knew about the poet’s radio play, “Under milk wood”, written in 1954 for the BBC. A new edition of the […]
The paradox of the immaterial
Is the mind, and all that it beholds, an illusion, as some materialists hold? And thus, all the concepts of physics, such as time, a necessary illusion―chance, causality, and much more? Nigel Pocock This writer is an unashamed dualist, seeing the mind as an emergent reality, a product […]















