"Zero Negative - Cero negativo will make you wonder how Isabel del Rio can be so playful and so serious, so faithful and so creative at the same time."
Isabel Hurtado de Mendoza, translator at Lingotrans
I am honoured to have received an honourable mention for my poem ’On Sin'... On Sin Daily deeds in self-defence have this perfect symmetry: they mirror what has been done and demand penitence where it is due. No sin and no surrender. What acts our own, which the harvest of persuasion? Guiltless by birth, we are born of old and if we are guilty of any sin, it is uniquely the oldest sin of all: I will not be bound. We sin for others, bear others’ sins, and each event is
A selection of my poems has just been published by the prestigious 'Ars Notoria' magazine... https://arsnotoria.com/2025/11/09/isabel-del-rio-four-poems/
My poem 'Expelled from Paradise' was published in the recent issue of the arts periodical Whispering Dialogue . I will also be reading this poem at the WD event on Monday 27th at 5pm at the University of Westminster (Westminster Business School, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS)
