SILVIA PIO (edited by) There was an old woman called Deb who had a crazy idea in her head to hear people’s ills without giving pills but give them poems instead Deborah Alma travels around British fairs and festivals in…
Poetry on Prescription
The Showcase of Margutte
Moonlight visions
SILVANO GREGOLI. THE 60s, AREA OF PIAN DELLA TURA Mondovì, Saturday afternoon, Piazza Adua. Spring is at its fullest but the mountains are still white. We, the people of the refuge, are ready to get on our Vespa and Lambretta…
(Italiano) Il potere dell’interpretazione
The Elements, poems and photos
SILVIA PIO Air Made of air our memories are smuggled from oblivion, a habit of ours. Our thoughts are mysteries of wind wafting with our wandering; a breath of incense, a puff of sky intangible, impossible to quantify. The vital…
A Forest of Trees
Thirty-eight years since its composition, Richard Berengarten’s Tree has been translated wholly or partly into at least eleven languages. And with nine translations, TREE is now inaugurated as a multilingual project in Margutte. Tree is published here in a number of…
Each translation is a new creation
POEMS BY JOHN IRVING CLARKE WITH THE ITALIAN TRANSLATION BY SILVIA PIO READING OF THE POEMS BY THE AUTHOR HIMSELF John Irving Clarke’ s poetry is a sharp blow to the reader’s conscience and goes straight to the point. There…
Non si è mai ex deportati – An “impossibile” interview with Lidia Rolfi
Lidia Rolfi Beccaria (Mondovì 8.4.1925 – 17.1.1996), was a political prisoner in Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1943. In the Italian section there is a fictional interview with her, based on her books and biographies. Bibliography: Lidia Beccaria Rolfi, Anna Maria…