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The works of poetry, prose and essays offer a snapshot of the concerns and preoccupations shared by young writers from a region with a rich literature that rarely reaches English-language readers and at the same time confirms the vitality of the bilingual Welsh literary scene.

In these stories people strive to make a place, a living, a life with meaning in a new country or sense in an old one: from zero hour contracts in Bridgend and Munich to scraping a living as a mermaid on the streets of Barcelona.

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Globalisierungstendenz und das Internet sind die Entwicklungen, die das 21. Jahrhundert momentan am meisten beeinflussen. Beide haben nicht nur Einfluss auf die wirtschaftliche und politische Entwicklung ganzer Länder, sondern auch auf den Menschen als Individuum. Das Zusammenwachsen der europäischen Märkte im Rahmen der Europäischen Union, verbunden mit der Einführung des Euro als allen Mitgliedsländern gemeins...

The six poets whose work is included in this collection have become known to the wider Czech readership in the past ten to fifteen years, despite the fact that they belong to two very different generations: the generation exiled by the totalitarian regime of pre-Velvet Revolution Czechoslovakia - whether from public literary life or from the country itself - and the younger generation which started publishing in the late 1990s. Both were faced...