MÜESSER YENİAY When we look back at Turkish women’s poetry of the Ottoman period, we also read an historical process. In Ottoman times, as it is known, women were not in the social arena at all. They could not be…
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)…
(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…
«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…
Jimmy Andrex was born and brought up in Wakefield and was educated at several schools which no longer exist! Despite this ominous start, he tries to find beauty and humour in the stories and conversations of the people around him.…
JOHN IRVING CLARKE Was it serendipity, coincidence or just sheer good fortune to be in the right place at the right time? Whatever, I happened to be in Mocca Moocho, a Wakefield café with a distinctly arts focussed air, when…
I poeti di Wakefield* We observe the Calder flow where boats are berthed around bollards with tight lines we observe the boats in the hour when those living in them water the flowers and remove dried leaves of solitude. We…
SILVIA PIO It was a chance encounter, if one believes in chance, and also a virtual one, if one wants to call an exchange of emails this way. Nowadays poets meet also in the net, and Margutte widely proves it.…
JIMMY ANDREX Daniel, 45, an accountant, is on his way into one of Wakefield’s two remaining libraries to renew his books. He’s recently had a go at creative writing for the first time via a project advertised in his local…
Born in Turnu Măgurele, Romania, in 1948, she is a Doctor in Mathematics and Professor at the University of Bucharest, Romania. She is poet, translator and editor, member of the Writers’ Union of Romania. She has published more than forty…
SILVIA PIO An experimental vineyard, a blond bluesman from Alabama, a small church with a funny sort of architecture: what do they have in common? You’ll be surprised to know that they are all pieces of the same puzzle, an…
Müesser Yeniay was born in İzmir in 1984. She graduated from Ege University, with a degree in English Language and Literature. She has won several prizes in Turkey including Yunus Emre (2006), Homeros Attila İlhan (2007), Ali Riza Ertan (2009),…
