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Pina Piccolo – The Poet’s Adventure
The poet had everything ready: a light briefcase, a ticket, an address. Now, while he was sitting on a bench waiting for the train,...
Miriam Bonetti – Central coffee bar
The Central was the historical bar in town, situated like a breach in the walls that surrounded the square along with an agonizing greengrocer’s...
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Interviews
Sudeep Sen: ‘The architecture of a poem is very important to...
А starting point for this interview with Sudeep Sen is his poem ‘Language’, which we chose for our new Inkroci column — “Two-tongued sea”...
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From the kitchen: Two-tongued Sea
How is a new Inkroci column born? How is an anthology conceived? Reading this story, you’re a witness to the inception of a transnational...
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Literatures
Sudeep Sen – Bharatanatyam dancer
Spaces in the electric air divide themselves
in circular rhythms, as the slender
grace of your arms and bell-tied ankles
describe a geometric topography, real, cosmic,
one...
Sudeep Sen
Sudeep Sen’s prize-winning books include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Rain, Aria (A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award), Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 (London Magazine...
Riccardo Duranti – Another Dream
In this one you stand
not quite against
an ancient, slanted mulberry tree in the languid attitude
of a Saint Sebastian
half armoured by your own hair hands...
Elizabeth Willis – The witch
A witch can charm milk from an ax handle.
A witch bewitches a man's shoe.
A witch sleeps naked.
"Witch ointment" on the back will allow you...
Elizabeth Willis
Elizabeth Willis is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Alive: New and Selected Poems, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other books...
Raphael d’Abdon – great poetry
it is a great day at the auditorium
the chairman of the poetry foundation
reaches the podium
“in this place poetry matters”
he kicks off
“because it speaks to...
Reviews
Floating Landscape
The young Maan is tormented by the death of her boyfriend Sam, a young painter...
Baret Magarian – The Fabrications
Taking tea with the gods: Baret Magarian’s binary realities
London has always been the smoky city...
Patrick Süskind – Perfume
Paris, 1738: the fish market. Here, in the smelliest place of the smelliest city in...
King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
I still remember the first listening: an immense emotion overwhelmed me, taking me into another...
Liane Strauss – Frankie, Alfredo
To read Liane Strauss’s poems is to sharpen your mind, deliciously. This chapbook is full...
Alexander Shurbanov – Dendrarium
The Italian edition "Dendrarium" (Musicaos, 2021) by Alexander Shurbanov, has been translated by Francesco Tomada...
Ugly, Dirty and Bad
Down and dirty is too important to simply be defined by a movie genre. A...
Elizabeth Jane Howard – The Cazalet Chronicles
As written by Hilary Mantel, Elizabeth Jane Howard is a craftswoman, because in order to...
Richard Wright – Native Son
Bigger Thomas grew up in the black ghetto of Chicago where, even though he has...
Arundhathi Subramaniam – Love without a Story
The title of Arundhathi Subramaniam’s adeptly wrought, and wide-ranging collection immediately begs a question. Or...
