Time Travel @ Aleksei Kazantsev

Macclesfield HospitalBy Matthew Byrne My younger brother fell in the grassas we played, and rose with a thick gash across his knee-cap,we followed him dirge-like back to the house. We took him to hospitalto get it stitched, his screamspitched like sonar dependingon where the needle was.They kept him over night. This place has seen all of our childish misfortunesbut it is also the placewhere my older brother died.As we left we heard whooping from a room that sounded likecelebration, my father saidit's where they tell youthe bad news,it was the sound of men so distraught that they barked.Later, in the soft glowof the dash board dialsmy father quietly weptwhile he drove.


在麦克莱斯菲尔德医院昨非/译‍‍‍‍ 那一天，我们在草地玩耍，弟弟跌倒了，起来后膝盖出现一道深深的切痕。我们跟着他悻悻地回到屋内， 然后送他去医院缝合伤口。他的尖叫如声纳，随着针尖移动，‍当晚，大夫让他住下。 这个医院见证了我们童年所有的不幸，那一年哥哥就死在那儿。我们离开时，一个房间里 传来尖叫，就像有人在欢庆。父亲说，他们就是在那儿将坏消息告诉家属的。男人们发出的嚎叫 悲痛欲绝，犹如犬吠。之后，父亲驾车送我们回去，仪表盘发出柔和的微光，我们看到他悄悄哭了。 

Matthew Byrne （1988- ）

Matthew Byrne is a British poet who was awarded his Creative Writing MA from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2009. He was active in the poetry scene in Manchester, founding the Unsung Collective and the Unsung Magazine—culminating in the creative writing festival, UnsungFest, in the summer of 2012. He moved to Beijing in 2013 and founded the Spittoon Collective (www.spittooncollective.com) and Literary Magazine in 2016 in which he operates as Director. He also played drum and sang in three bands in Beijing: Macondo, Paths, and Peking Floyd. Spittoon is a platform that supports and sustains literary and artistic collaborations between the Chinese and the World. It organizes poetry and fiction reading nights, story telling, workshops, a music-poetry collaboration called Spit-Tunes, and the Spittoon Literary Magazine.马修·伯恩，英国诗人，2009年毕业于曼切斯特城市大学，获创意写作硕士学位，曾活跃于曼彻斯特诗歌现场，创办Unsung社区及其刊物The Unsung Magazine，并于2012年夏举办创意写作节UnsungFest。2013年到北京工作，2020年返回英格兰生活。他曾是北京三支乐队Macondo, Paths, Peking Floyd )的鼓手和主唱。2016年创立 Spittoon 社区 (www.spittooncollective.com)，并担任负责人至今。Spittoon 是一个中外文学和艺术社区，主办有诗歌之夜、小说之夜、故事之夜，以及糅合了音乐与诗歌的SpitTunes 等，旗下有双语独立文学杂志Spittoon Literary Magazine。