The Italian association « LYRIKS » has published Città fantastica, a representative selection of Lorenzo Calogero’s poetry in a special limited edition. The book, edited by Nino Cannatà, was published in commemoration of Calogero’s 110th birthday. With a text by John Taylor.
Read MoreExcerpts from John Taylor’s « A Notebook of Ridges, » the second half of his book co-authored with Pierre Chappuis—A Notebook of Clouds & A Notebook of Ridges (The Fortnightly Review)—have appeared in Trafika Europe (No. 18, « All Poetry » issue, 2020).
Read MoreTwo poems by Franca Mancinelli, in John Taylor’s translation, have appeared in the first issue of Azonal.
Read MoreFive poems by Franca Mancinelli, in John Taylor’s translation, have appeared in The Bengalaru Review: with the power of nothing of never having had anything to barter, gestures re-create a language fastening armor to my body. *** it has happened, stay: in the dark hollow like a uterus, dwell there is a point when life […]
Read MoreLefteris Karkas has reviewed Harsh out of Tenderness: The Greek Poet and Urban Folklorist Elias Petropoulos (Cycladic Press) in the journal Trypa: Ήταν μάλλον ο καιρός, 17 χρόνια μετά τον θάνατο του Ηλία Πετρόπουλου, να γραφτεί ένα βιβλίο για τη ζωή και το έργο του στ’ αγγλικά. Το δώρο αυτό μας έκανε ο συγγραφέας John […]
Read MoreJohn Taylor’s translation of Franca Mancinelli‘s « The Boy among the Rocks » has appeared in The Trovaille Review. Near the seaport of Gouvia there is a small beach from which one can see the profile of the island all the way to the city of Corfu; opposite, uninhabited and barren, the mountains on the Greek-Albanian border […]
Read MoreThis article about John Taylor’s translation of Franca Mancinelli‘s The Little Book of Passage (The Bitter Oleander Press) has appeared on Tony’s Reading List: After last week’s reviews took us to Quebec, I fancied a change of location, so we’ll be heading over to Italy for the next couple of posts – and why not? […]
Read MoreFranca Mancinelli‘s sequence « Strands », translated by John Taylor, has been published in Strands. Photos by Mitar Simikić. An excerpt: whatever I can I heat up over the fire. We found a well-made saucepan. Whoever bivouacked here is perhaps already in Germany. A matter of time, money, and luck. Our guide took the money. He drinks […]
Read MoreJohn Taylor’s book Harsh out of Tenderness: The Greek Poet and Urban Folklorist Elias Petropoulos has just appeared at the Cycladic Press. « It was a Saturday afternoon in May, 1979. Elias Petropoulos had started laying a stone walkway behind his and Mary Koukoules’s country home in Coye-la-Forêt, a village located north of Paris. It was […]
Read MoreFranca Mancinelli‘s prose text « Living in the Ideal City », in John Taylor’s translation, has been published in Asymptote. John Taylor’s brief introduction to Mancinelli, followed by the opening passage: Franca Mancinelli (b. 1981) is one of the leading poets of her generation and has received several important prizes in Italy. I have had the pleasure […]
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