Calliope’s Voice

Poets of the World, Ashok Chakravarthy, India

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Poet and review writer, he is from Hyderabad City. He has been composing poetry for the past 25 years, producing nearly 1200 poems, several of which appeared in international literary journals, anthologies, websites etc. He has been conferred with many…

Germain Droogenbroodt Knows Italy

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(SILVIA PIO, edited by) Born in Rollegem, in the Flemish part of Belgium, where Dutch is one of the official languages, in 1987 he moved to the Mediterranean artist village of Altea, where he still lives. One of his books,…

Poets of the World: Quito Nicolaas, Aruba

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Quito Nicolaas (Aruba), studied Political sciences and International law and is currently a law-consultant. He has dedicated himself to writing and published ten books; six volumes of poetry, three novels and a volume of short-stories. His poetry had also appeared…

A Sud delle Cose. To the South of Things

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FRANCES FAHY To appreciate the title of Bongiovanni’s collection of poems, it may be useful to know that in the Italian mentality “south” is often synonymous with backward and somewhat uncouth. More so in the mentality of those people from…

Poets of the World: Aju Mukhopadhyay, India

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Aju Mukhopadhyay, Pondicherry, is a bilingual award winning poet, author and critic. He has written thirty books and received several poetry awards in India and the USA besides other honours. He has published two volumes of short stories, some of…