Rocco Scotellaro: PoemsRocco Scotellaro was born in 1923 in Tricarico, in the impoverished southern region of Lucania. When he died at the age of thirty, he had published poems in regional and national magazines and was beginning to attract significant critical attention and acclaim. In the year after his death a first collection, fatto giorno, selected by Carlo Levi from over four hundred poems in his possession, was awarded both the Pellegrino and Viareggio prizes.

his latest being Heaven’s Gate (Seren

Mohamed Metwalli – Three Poems

It was in Portici that he died

randy anarchist ready again to lay down one of his lives for what he believes

but the sense of timelessness is sometimes disrupted by poems which relate contemporary events

Nina Gorlanova

He has earned his living as a farmer

Daniel Day-Lewis

Mona Zaki: Saleem Barakat's mezmerising world of language and metaphor

Illustrated with photographs

Without a Face

along with translations of Valéry Larbaud