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Haarlem

Kristien Hemmerechts

Kristien Hemmerechts about Haarlem

Haarlem raked over

Haarlem afgeharkt

The Spaarne is her favourite song by virtuoso Dutch duo De Groot and Nijgh, it is even one of her all-time favo...

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Lisbon

Dulce Maria Cardoso

Dulce Maria Cardoso about Lisbon

They’re all love stories

Tudo são histórias de amor

My name is Jinja. Jinja with a J. I’m a mongrel, medium-sized, golden mane, floppy ears, eyes that could melt...

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Patrícia Portela	The April Gentleman
Sus Van Elzen	A Great Sense of Nostalgia
José Maria Vieira Mendes	The Street
Tim Etchells	BureauGrotesque - A Sad Tale of Scarton from Endland (sic)

citybooks about Lisbon

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Kakha Kakhiani
/ Tbilisi
João Tabarra
/ Karlsruhe

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Armen of Armenia	Radio Yerevan
Serge van Duijnhoven	Cemetery of the Alphabet
Arpi Voskanyan	Yerevan Dreams: A Reportage
Gevorg Gilants	All Roads Lead To

Simone Lenaerts	A Scrap of Time
Werner Schandor	Freedom of the Heart
Andrea Stift	I do not live here
Onno Kosters	Gravity and Counterweight

Bart Van Loo	The Veil of Time
Jeroen van Rooij	Labyrinths
Marcin Wronski	Postcards from Chartres
Chris Van Camp	32, Rue aux Juifs. A dialogue

Maïssa Bey	Where Did the Birds Go?
Dermot Bolger	The Unremembered
Catherine Vuylsteke	Poste Restante (English version)
Ghayath Almadhoun	Schizophrenia

Clinton du Plessis	Tetraptych
Arjen Duinker	Parrots and Other Birds
Marlene van Niekerk	On dragon’s teeth, goody two-poops, connoisseurs and sausage: a Stellenbosch medley for voice and upright, with two intermezzos, backed by historical rustling
Saskia de Coster	Wildebeest (EN)

Michael Bijnens	I will follow you
Frederik Willem Daem	Signs of Life – A Topography of Purgatory
Rebekka de Wit	Until the Difference is Between Galaxies
Ghayath Almadhoun	The Capital

Andrzej Stasiuk	Lublin (en)
Witold Szablowski	All the Gateways of Lublin
Maud Vanhauwaert	Lublin’s Stations of the Cross
Mauro Pawlowski	Na zdrowie, good Belgian!

Candra Dewi Dian Puspitasari	Golden Child
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Triyanto Triwikromo	Little Stories of Pre- to Post-Colonial Semarang. Poems
Gustaaf Peek	9 letters to Maria M.

Rebecca Lenaerts	my humble home / aan huis geketend / fourgon fermé
Helen Mort	The God of Gaps
Studenten Sheffield	Beyond Sheffield Train Station
Àgnes Lehóczky	Parasite of Town

Arjan Hut	‘I love the sound of a train in the distance’
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Erik Vlaminck	Matchbox no. 9

Ruth San A Jong	What Am I Doing Here?
Sihar Ramses Simatupang	The One Left Behind in Batavia, 1920
Annelies Verbeke	Angels in Jakarta
Akidah Gauzillah	Rendezvous

Małgorzata Rejmer	Wings are just a metaphor
Aleš Steger	Departing Trains
Christophe Van Gerrewey	Ten memories of Hasselt and Genk
Use Lahoz	The Man Who Hugged Trees

Davide Longo	Master Utrecht
Jeroen Olyslaegers	This is where you begin again
Brink Scholtz	The return
Astrid Lampe	My City A Building Site

Karl Schlögel	Ghent – a European Panorama. Henri van de Velde, Edmond Sacré, Henri Pirenne
Annelies Verbeke	Home Town
Niña Weijers	Eclipse
Ángeles Caso	A Ghent Love Song

Peter Holvoet-Hanssen	The mission in Ostend
Jeroen Olyslaegers	Another cheek
Christiaan Weijts	Damage
Milena Michiko Flašar	Nobody Nowhere

Peter Terrin	The Truth of the Matter
Chika Unigwe	Heart of Darkness
Walter van den Broeck	A Migrant in Turnhout
Maxim Februari	Underground Party Room

Atte Jongstra	Death Comes Up From Below. Walks in Venice
Lydia Mischkulnig	Curiosity 'alla veneziana'
Cees Nooteboom	Venice 2012
Luc Devoldere	Pearl without a Shell

Saskia de Coster	A Hundred and Forty Kilos of Love
Nikola Madzirov	Homes without Frames
Goce Smilevski	Conversation about the City's Metamorphosis
Irena Cvetkovic	A Date

Carmien Michels	Not long now
Erik Lindner	Rowers on Lake Aa

Ester Naomi Perquin	Bucharest - A One-Person Travel Pack
Răzvan Radulescu	Me, in the Center
Adrian Schiop	Travesty
Anna Luyten	The Ways of the Ant

Ronelda Kamfer	Hoarding Thoughts
Brink Scholtz	The Outskirts
Ingrid Winterbach	Remains
Gerda Dendooven	A Perfect Plan - Stories from the Land of the Black Man

Monika Rinck	Karlsruhe Reversible Image, September 2016
Maarten van der Graaff	DOLOR: Official punk in Karlsruhe

Erik Lindner	Charleroi. 10 poems
Davide Longo	Interview No. 6
Pascal Verbeken	Eurowash 2000, a packet boat in the city
Caroline Lamarche	Intangible Heritage. A stay in the Black Country

Shota Iatashvili	Where edges meet
Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili	A long letter to a sister far away
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Stefan Hertmans	The Knifemaker of Tbilisi

Unique 30 minute audio stories. Writers on cities.

Let Me Carry Your Pain

Laat mij je pijn dragen

Farewell

Leb Wohl

The Cathedral and the Circus

КАТЕДРАЛАТА И ЦИРКУСОТ

The machine gun

De mitrailleur

Ella’s outlined sky

Ella se belynde lug

Antwerp in november

Antwerpen in november

A Reported Offence

Aangifte

Palm leaves and promises

Meisje van vroeger

Down and Dirty in Sheffield

Uitgeteld en plat in Sheffield

John Lennon the Dog

الكلب جون لينون

The Final Ending

Akhir yang Terakhir

Haarlem raked over

Haarlem afgeharkt

Bokrijk: Breathing Space

Bokrijk: ademgebied

All and Nothing

Alles en niets

The Brass Band that Ate an Elephant

De fanfare die een olifant opat

Snippets from Ostend

Fragmenten uit Oostende

Three in the city

სამნი ქალაქში

As Venice is now

Zoals Venetië nu

Warrior on a Horse

Beeld van een gewapende strijder op een paard

In Search of Water

Auf der Suche nach dem Wasser

Be Sure to Take Your Own Bicycle Pump

Neem wel uw eigen fietspomp mee

I am sitting in the sea

ek sit in die see

Eiapopeia. A heavenly lullaby

Eyapopeya. Een hemels wiegelied

The Reservation

La réserve