The public and the secret ways that take us away from the crowds and out of our vehicles
thousands of essays and numerous drafts and fragments survive
the Guardian
but re-opened by the rise of feet
Bernard O'Donoghue is the author of six poetry collections
Liquid Sand by Jorge Valdés, trans. Sue Burke & Christian Law-Palacín Algernon Charles Swinburne The public and the secretPublished 1st November 2025. Jorge Valdes Diaz Velez was born in Torreon, Mexico, in 1955. He is considered by critics as one of the foremost contemporary poets of Ibero Amrica. His work is crossed by universal references that are transformed and enriched thanks to the author's voice: the four elements, the coordinates of space and time, nostalgia and hope, remembering and forgetting, music and silence, certainties, losses, distances, love and