Streets Where to Walk Is to Embark: Spanish Poets in London Chen Chen The Illegal Age chronicles the

The Illegal Age chronicles the arrival of a new

‘His poems have that kind of humour that is simply an alternative to a cry of pain

Many of his friends were killed and he spent eighteen months in an army detention centre

the playgrounds of the gods

but also a channel or an opening inside the body

Streets Where to Walk Is to Embark: Spanish Poets in London Chen Chen The Illegal Age chronicles theI bring together here a wide selection of poems written about the city over the past two centuries by Spanish poets. The starting date had to be 1800 as I couldnt find anything written earlier. The poems had to be recognisably about the city. There are probably many more poems written in London by Spanish poets, but I wasnt about to enter into an archaeology of creation or sift through biographies, a task beyond the scope of this anthology: I wanted