SERKAN ENGİN According to the school of imagist socialist poetry, poetry is written in poetic images, not in individual words. But what is poetic image and how can it be created? The description of the “image,” according to the philosophy,…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE January can be a dreary month. The post-holiday weeks feel anticlimactic, empty, with little on the horizon except a return to normal routine. But here in Mondovi` January brings excitement and wonder as the city hosts its…
JOHN I. CLARKE Method and organisation I will shore against my ruins. A couple of hours will see me through these exercise books, a bit of flick and tick while Eric is preparing the dinner. Eric? Oh he’s quite the…
PEACEFUL MORNING IN THE HIMALAYAS It appears as if the previous night has quenched every thirst The day comes with light and voices of birds strange to the ear In the distance the wavering sound of a reed flute: a…
“The posters, as usual, say it all.” This remark by British journalist Robert Fisk does raise several questions. Is it really true that posters “say it all”? And is it true for all posters or just some of them? This…
PLEA Do not come as light which all too bright blinds the eye neither come as darkness which one cannot grasp but rather do come as a thorn who announces the rose is within reach. Germain Droogenbroodt In Dutch, the…
Julia Bridget Hayes, between iconography and photography You are from South Africa, Nelson Mandela’s homeland, and the land of fight against racial discrimination. In this environment, how did your religious and artistic calling start? Firstly, thank you for inviting me…
Messages in a bottle are passages, quoted from writers who lived in the past, conveying a message that can still be appreciated in the present. Philip Arthur Larkin, (Coventry 9 August 1922 – London 2 December 1985) was an English…
CATHERINE LONIE Thanks to Irvine Welsh and “Trainspotting”, the ancient port of Leith is infamous. Even before Welsh’s novel, my grandmother had a low opinion of the place and would have been horrified to know any of her kin, however…
CLAUDIA AZZOLA Issue No. 11 of the Traduzionetradizione journals - Editorial The present issue falls into two subjects: poetry and prose, the prose fiction of established nomenclature, presenting two extracts out of novels which outdo the plot and realism, and root in…
Illuminating Rover Light me as the powerful nebulas Returning from light years of photons Be my auroras in the eve of unknown darkness And all other darkness that the lord of light cansolarly and universally define Be my spectral radiance…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) If so intensely we would live like the rose the deep perfume of the bodies would mean much more. Oh, short intense life of a day of secular roses, you passed by the house alike, alike,…
SERKAN ENGIN Poetry is the organization of the poetic images around one or more themes, forming completeness, according to imagist socialist poetry. As it can be understood from this description, the main unit of the poetry is the poetic image,…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) THE OLIVE TREE The olive tree stands above my yard. Ages fuse to perplex the wide trunk. Crafted by pain fissures sculptured in peace curves make a precious piece of Art echoing the pulse of eternal…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE and SILVIA PIO On the sixth day of October 1957 Agnese and Raimondo got married early in the morning and not at high mass as normally expected in Agnese’s village. Her parents had arranged a family lunch at…
