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David Toop on Rhodri Davies

"All musical instruments come with baggage. In fact they are baggage – objects of surrealist furniture that speak. Smash them, burn them, build them in funny shapes or digital simulacra and yet they grin back: “still here”. Seeing Rhodri Davies set himself up to play amplified harp at ...more

Gimbal – the interactive literary iPhone app

Literature Across Frontiers and Comma Press launch a new iPhone application. 

Gimbal offers a new way of reading the city. Choose a city – anywhere in the world – and be transported to it by its fiction. Traverse its precincts. Map your way through its quarters or ...more

The Guardian on Niall Griffiths’ new novel

'When we first meet Grace Allcock, she's prone and anaesthetised, about to get a nose-job. The scene is nearly unreadable, the unflinching prose keeping us alive to what "before" and "after" photographs would have us forget; this is a violent procedure, partly conducted with a ...more

Three percent? New research from Literature Across Frontiers

Publishing Data and Statistics on Translated Literature in the United Kingdom and Ireland is a new research report which reveals the first ever accurate figures for the number of translated titles published in the British Isles and recommends a mechanism to collect further data.

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