INKROCI N.29 – MAY 2018
Stories
H.G. Wells – The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for...
Giorgio Olivari – Nenad
Grandma went to town yesterday and never came back. What happened? I don’t know.
Alma tells me not to worry. She says: “Don’t be scared,...
Words from Ireland
Interviews
The future is a bad path – Interview with seven writers...
To celebrate the release of the two anthologies curated by Gian Filippo Pizzo – La cattiva strada (The Bad Path), published by Delmiglio, and...
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EDITORIAL
The Border
Crossing the border: crossing the frontier, going beyond the border line.
An interpreter, similarly to a translator, is always a symbolic boundary: he/she lies between...
COVER
COMICS
Literatures
Stephen Byrne – Because You’re A Girl
you will bring life
into this world,
only to lose yours.
Because you’re a girl
you will suffer mutilation
to bleed & scream for a month.
Because you’re a girl
you...
Stephen Byrne – A Father Calls to his Child on Liveleak
In memoriam 513 Children Gaza 2014
Wake up child wake up
cries the father to his child
beneath the torn & tattered building
within the dust &...
Stephen Byrne – Raise Your Heads
stop looking at the ground
stop glaring at your phones
stop hiding under rocks
stop drowning beneath the sea
stop avoiding the eyes
of someone in need
stop social media...
Mary Stewart – The Merlin trilogy
“My Lord, when you look for what I am looking for, you have to look in strange places. Men can never look at...
Stephen Byrne
Stephen Byrne is a chef and writer originally from Dublin and now lives in Chicago. His debut book Somewhere but not Here was selected...
Bobbie Sparrow – Beat the same drum
It’s not enough to suckle and rear
two sons who have never been here
before nor will ever be seen again
it’s not enough to hold a...
Reviews
Aoibheann McCann – Marina
Marina enters the world experiencing a trauma: the trauma of separation from a submarine world,...
Leonardo Sciascia – Black on Black
“The emperor is naked”, the intellectual said
Black on Black was published in 1979, when...
Mauro Covacich – The Bride
Seventeen stories of admirable normality
This collection of seventeen stories features, among them, attacks perpetrated...
Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
If Charles Dickens were a season, he would be autumn, and if he were a...
Jack London – The Paths Men Take
The Paths Men Take is a book that presents a wide selection of photographs taken...
Stefano Tevini – Recap of previous episodes
Photographs from the future
The world is rotten. It is dominated by multinationals, corporations and media....
Vona Groarke – Selected Poems
Opening Out
This Selected volume reflects the development of Vona Groarke’s poetic sensibility over a period...
Erri De Luca – A Cloud as a Carpet
A cloud as a carpet is a collection of the most significant passages of the...
Ross Macdonald – The Moving Target
Detective Harper is instructed by Elaine Sampson, a high society lady, to find her husband...
Francesco Piccolo – The Desire to Be like Everyone
The right to be happy like everyone
This book is neither a novel nor an essay,...
