Calliope’s Voice

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…

The Wakefield Poets, William Thirsk-Gaskill

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(SILVIA PIO, edited by) William Thirsk-Gaskill has contributed to the Poetry Twinning “Da Terre a Terre” with the poem Eleven colours of loneliness. When asked to tell Margutte something about himself, he sent the following: «I am an emerging writer based…

Roberto Malini: poetry as a song of freedom

Reading for the rights of Rom people (Genoa)

Roberto Malini was born in Milan on May 27th, 1959. Poet, artist, historian, screenplay writer and documentary maker, he is co-president of EveryOne Group, an international human rights organization. He wrote his first poems back in 1972 encouraged by his…

Poets from the World, Boris Jovanović Kastel, Montenegro

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Boris Jovanovic Kastel (Trebinje, 1971), considered by literary critics the most important Montenegrin poet of Mediterranean origin and prominent name of Mediterranen poetry. He published the following books of poetry: The Scents of regrets (1994) The Rings of Seaside (1995)…

The Wakefield Poets, Viv Longley

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(SILVIA PIO, edited by) Viv Longley has contributed to the Poetry Twinning “Da Terre a Terre” with the poem I Share my Kitchen with Many Spirits, which was translated into Italian by her daughter-in-law Matilda Koroveshi. She has given Margutte…

The Wakefield Poets

People need poetry

«Poetry is a notoriously solitary business. In the popular imagination, poets are ensconced in draughty attics composing their great work, they very often seek inspiration in solitude and as often as not the resultant great work is read by people…