LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE Frosted meadows and a blank, overcast sky today–the actual first day of 2015, with Italy finally back to school and work after January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany. This late return to the daily grind may…
Marine Petrossian’s antipoetry METAPHYSICS our father— I said but he didn’t let me continue rather strange— I never say our father perhaps it was a dream or maybe I was bewildered to see that he exists our father— I said…
Sacha Rosel and poetry Biography of the author. Sacha Rosel (Pescara, 1974) is an Italian writer and poet. She worked for several Italian publishing companies as a freelance manuscript reader and as a translator from English to Italian. She is…
Light lamps and candles to show the way to the Pakistani children so they can fly to the Heaven as a flock of birds Gather around their mothers to share their pains and sorrows they will keep close till the…
ANGIE DE COURCY BOWER Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) was started in 1977 by Peter Murray, who was at that time running the post graduate course for art teachers at Bretton Hall, a former college of the arts in the centre…
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…
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…
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…
ANDREA PACE I was but a teenager when I met Robert Johnson for the first time, the man who sold his soul to the devil in order to learn to play the guitar. I was not a cheerful teenager, I…
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…
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…
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…
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…
(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 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…
