Posts Tagged ‘ The World according to Poetry ’

The World according to Poetry: Federica Nightingale

October 23, 2009
The World according to Poetry: Federica Nightingale

 

It’s with pleasure I present you the work of Federica Nightingale, an unknown treasure in the contemporary landscape of poetry. Some call her writing dark, others ephemere … I call it superb. I can only hope you will enjoy this as much as I did, maybe even more …

 

 

 

 

 

 

(The poems that were previously published here have been deleted at the author’s request.  Because there are comments, I am leaving the post up, sans poems.  D. Blaine)

 

BIO: I was born in Turin (Italy) in 1964. I actually live in the countryside, in a small village on the top of a hill. In 1993  I  first had my shortstory “La stanza di Giulia”  collected in an anthology and published by Mondadori, one of the most important editors in Italy. I actually write mostly poetry and  some of my poems are visible on the web where I write on several literary sites. My poems have been published in many anthologies and reviews in Italy and abroad. I have a literary blog  http://lastanzadinightingale.blogspot.com/ where I publish Italian and foreign authors. I personally translate from English to Italian. I work as an after- school assistant in a primary school and teach English to children.…

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The World According to Poetry #2: Parris Fotias

September 18, 2009
The World According to Poetry #2: Parris Fotias

Parris Fotias: the hunter and the hunted

Allow me a short introduction to this exceptional writer. Unknown but not untalented, far from … Parris used to write under a pseudonym of which so few know the real man behind it. Life, struggle and personal reasons prevented him of bringing his writing to the next level. All said and done he entered a new phase in his life … where being published became an important issue. Therefore he has chosen today, as he will do in the future, to present you his writing under his real name. Where the hunted becomes the hunter, I present you … Parris Fotias

 

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The World according to Poetry

September 3, 2009
The World according to Poetry

If poetry can represent something meaningful, it is in the way it presents us shared and divergent perceptions of life and the world around us. In “The World according to Poetry” I will present you every fortnight a specific poet who can sway your body and soul, bring you to the depths of knowledge and perception and raise you to the heights of pure beauty and recognition. Where minds can meet as one, where souls can be touched, where bodies can utter emotion and where the spirit can long at last. I present you …

R.M. Engelhardt: the angel from below.

One poet, a world of visions. Dark from above, brilliant from below, haunting yet hopeful … Ten poems from the bottom of the heart and mind … let his poetry speak to you, it will tell you more than I can say.

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