Tempo — Excursions in 21st Century Italian Poetry

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Blodeugerdd o gerddi sy'n adlewyrchu amrywiaeth eang a bwrlwm maes barddoniaeth gyfoes yn yr iaith Eidaleg.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Contemporary Italian poetry offers an extraordinary array of styles, voices, approaches, ways of looking at the world and ways of representing it. This anthology tries to capture the multiplicity of these voices with its selection of the most representative poets from different backgrounds: academic, working-class writer, editor, journalist, performer, traveller.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Luca Paci was born in Novara, north Italy in 1970. Paci is currently the Co-Director of the Italian Cultural Centre Wales, the Italian Film Festival Cardiff and part of the executive board of Wales PEN Cymru. For the past five years he has been teaching Italian Studies at Swansea and Cardiff University. Paci is a translingual poet, editor and translator into English, Welsh and Italian. He has published a number of essays, articles and poems in English and Italian. Among his translations are La Ragazza Carla / A Girl Named Carla by Elio Pagliarani (Troubadour, 2006) and Bondo by Menna Elfyn (Ludo, 2021).

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

This collection with parallel texts in Italian and English gives the English-reading audience a sense of the great variety of the present poetic scene in Italy with a selection of twenty-one of the most representative contemporary poets. The poets who appear are: Antonella Anedda, Franco Buffoni, Dome Bulfaro, Maria Grazia Calandrone, Chandra Livia Candiani, Milo De Angelis, Matteo Fantuzzi, Fabio Franzin, Marco Giovenale, Mariangela Gualtieri, Andrea Inglese, Rosaria Lo Russo, Valerio Magrelli, Guido Mazzoni, Umberto Piersanti, Laura Pugno Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Ida Travi, Luigi Trucillo, Patrizia Valduga, Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto and Lello Voce. ‘a vital window into the soul of our neighbours in this post-Brexit Europe’ – Poetry Wales ; ‘These are excursions I intend to keep making, poets whose work I hope to find more of and enjoy.’ – Tears in the Fence ; ‘a welcome addition to the bookshelves’ – World Literature Today