Quito Nicolaas (Aruba), studied Political sciences and International law and is currently a law-consultant. He has dedicated himself to writing and published ten books; six volumes of poetry, three novels and a volume of short-stories. His poetry had also appeared…
SILVIA PIO Carol Ann Duffy (Glasgow 1955) is a poet and playwright. In 2009 she was appointed Britain’s poet laureate, a title whose holder is expected to write verse for significant national occasions. She is the first woman, and the…
John Clark has been a regular guest in Margutte since the beginning. Silvia Pio came across him in the net some years ago and they finally met in Mondovì in October 2013 for a Poetic Exchange organized by Margutte. With…
Two poems by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), in memoriam Mirror I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. What ever you see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful…
SILVIA PIO E ATTILIO IANNIELLO A Silent Echange of poems, a dialogue of verses between the authors. We publish here some of the poems from the first part of the booklet, which is about Time. The other poems about Time…
JOHN I. CLARKE These two boys who appear in the doorway of the Café Bertaina, scamper between tables like untrained pups before their sisters, older, wiser at eight and almost ten; they who let curls tumble to their shoulders and…
SILVIA PIO Why do we write? For many reasons: to follow an impulse to tell stories or to freeze an important moment on the page. The reasons are many and so are the occasions. The Creative Writing Workshop at the…
