Iain Galbraith is a writer living in Wiesbaden, Germany. His most recent books include a volume of poetry The True Height of the Ear (Arc, 2018), a translation of Esther Kinsky's novel River (Fitzcarraldo, 2017), and, into German, collections of poetry by John Burnside (Hanser, 2016) and Alice Oswald (S. Fischer 2018). He has received numerous prizes for his work, among them the Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation (2015).
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Street opera during lockdown IIA continuation of the author's Splinters phantasmagoria
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?'Tseuf tseuf' waiting to go: the English legislator and national disasterWhat does it take to make packed public transport, bars and football stadiums, perfectly compatible with clean air...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reinhard's Tale: in search of an absent tense'We might hope that some absences audible to us now (that of heavy traffic) anticipate future human life.'
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Universal anxietyNothing, certainly not language, escapes the bug.
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Published in: Home'But if I am only for myself' – sentences under lockdown" To throw off the burden of a present evil is no cure unless the general condition is improved." Michel de Montaigne.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Double-dog: a true-life Swabi-noir spy thriller"Now here is the extraordinary, indeed the seemingly paradoxical thing: Franzl opted for noise (and conviviality)...