Hearth-rending verse

El rey of gold teeth, Reyes Ramirez, 2023, Hub City Press

There is a technical term to describe poetry that combines two languages, macaronic verse, a device as old as the hills from which the voices of poets once resounded.

To intellectual snobs, use of the term macaronic is meant to be derogatory . . .

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Gavin O'Toole

I've spent much of my career in journalism and newspaper production: worked as a sub-editor and in other production roles at major UK newspapers including the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer and the Daily Telegraph / Sunday Telegraph. Covering business, finance, regulation, Latin American affairs and more. As a journalist and freelance writer I've contributed to many publications: work appears in outlets such as Al Jazeera, Public Finance, Global Government Forum, among others. Also an an award-winning writer of short stories and novelist. 

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