The suitcase of Hermes

The Wakefield Poets, Laura Potts

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Laura is a Wakefield poet aged 18 and is currently an English Literature student. She has twice been awarded a commendation as a Foyle Young Poet of the Year and Young Writer (an International English language poetry competition for under…

Poets of the World, Muhammad Shanazar, Pakistan

Title The Dance of Darkness

Muhammad Shanazar was born into a poverty stricken family in a village of Sub Division Gujarkhan District, Rawalpindi, Pakistan on 25th November, 1960. As a child he collected fodder and fire wood, grazed cattle and ploughed the farms. He lived…

Sulle rive del Resco

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Peter Russell: an English poet in Pian di Scò, Tuscany Peter Irwin Russell is considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century and the last of great modern poets. He was born in Bristol, England, on 16 September…

Message in a Bottle from Henry David Thoreau

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Margutte starts now a series of passages, quoted from writers who lived in the past, conveying a message that can still be appreciated in the present. The first is from Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) from a book that…

The Ghost of the Mediterranean

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MARIO NICOLAO And I hear my secret sea flood in, my hushed inner sea (‘Cicadas’, FL 171) a Homage to Agnostos Nomolos The Mediterranean contains many ghosts under the ceaseless to-ing and fro-ing of its green-blue waves. The ghost of…

Manual

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This left hand of mine now packing this page with script and this right hand steadying the same page’s edge together reach out to your hands that hold and turn the same copy in another time entirely your own or…

Poets of the World, Fahredin Shehu, Kosovo

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Fahredin Shehu was born in Rahovec, in southeastern Kosova, in 1972 and graduated from Prishtina University in Oriental Studies. He actively works on Calligraphy, discovering new mediums and techniques for this specific form of plastic art. In the last ten…