Journal

Not for nothing you said “Welcome to Hell!” when we first met. You were as hot as hell, but I was warned that you tirelessly gave hell to everyone. How in hell did I fall for you? I soon realised you were no hell of a man, and ours turned out to be a match made in hell. Sure as hell, you became hell on earth, and loving you embodied a living hell. Who the hell did you think you were? There was no hope in hell and, scaring the hell out of me, you looked like hell i

Obsession number one look around you, but keep it to yourself: this is the gratuitous strife we were invited to, this is the scene where affliction wrecks the sienna-heart well before the end is due: you may choose to deliver a message of no surrender, but your death will remain a pending matter Obsession number two oh, the gleeful state of minds accepting the ticking of a lifespan as more than what it is: might we bear witness to this delusion, blood a pot of ink an

My poem to Federico García Lorca. This is my most recent contribution to the arts periodical Whispering Dialogue. Lorca left us the most beautiful poems and plays, yet unbelievably there is no recording of this voice... Here is the link (Photograph by IdR - statue of Lorca in Plaza de Santa Ana, Madrid)

The QExtra My Muse Festival 2026 at The Questors Theatre in Ealing takes place between Monday 13 July and Friday 18 July, with plays performed from 7.30 pm. Two of my plays will be performed: on Monday, the short ‘The end of the world’; and on Friday, my 75min play ‘Yes, Alma, Yes’, dedicated to Alma Reville. On Saturday 18th there will be a music and poetry performance by Pitshanger Poets with multitalented musician Jasper Squire; I will be performing poems dedicated to four

An Oxford Poetry Circle event on Tuesday 28th at 7pm. With poets Michael Wyndham, Diana Bell, and myself. Hoping to see you there!

Adaptation for the Stage - A Transformative Experience between Languages and Genres An adaptation journey exploring the translation between languages and the transition between genres. The journey takes us from a short story in Spanish to another short story in English, and from there to an adaptation for the stage. The presentation will be followed by a script-in-hand performance of the short one-act play. https://www.bbk.ac.uk/annual-events/arts-week/arts-week-2026

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)

​ Isabel received an Honourable Mention from the Dark Poets Prize III 2025 for her poem ' Hands and Lips '.

My poem 'Graphology', on Franco’s declaration of the end of the Spanish civil war in 1939, has just been published in the prestigious...

My dark free sonnet "Once your heart stops beating, the blood collects", published in the latest edition of the outstanding literary...

My poem and image about dreams, 'It is said', have just been published in the latest edition of the outstanding arts magazine Steel...

Poesíavoz , baúl de voces e ideas de poetas y editoriales en estado de alarma - una iniciativa de la editorial y librería Enclave de...

My poem about the countdown of a life from ten to zero has been published by the arts periodical Whispering Dialogue. Click on the roses...

International Translation Day 2024 saw the launch of a new issue of the scholarly journal Il Pietrisco, ‘Mirrors, Landscapes, Battles’....

On Tuesday 12th March, do not miss a panel presentation at the LBF by the Poetry Translation Centre (PTC) and the Translators’...

Click to read and hear the poem in both English and Spanish. Published by Writers Mosaic 2024.

Do not miss the launch of the poetry anthology 'Equidistant Voices', translated into English by Isabel del Rio. On Friday 8th December,...

Join us online on Thursday 5th October at 10.00am for the Society of Authors online event 'Poetry in Translation'. With Erica Hesketh,...

A celebration of the life and work of extraordinary poet and artist, Michael Horovitz, at the Bermondsey Project Space, 9th September 2023

Molecules Unlimited Poetry event, with readings by Philip Gross and other extraordinary poets, led by Stephen Paul Wren 19.4.23 ...

My haiku 575 about the subject of Music, with an image by Matt Stacy. Published by Naviar Records: Music’s everywhere: the sea, the...