Margutte is hibernating for a month.
Calliope's Voice, Poetry
The Blue House – Five more unpublished poems by Max Mazzoli
MAX MAZZOLI 6 Winter is back And it reminds me of myself Before I met you. 7 The house where we had lived for years it was now empty and deserted without a piece of furniture. We walked on the…
The Showcase of Margutte, The rooms of Chronos, History
Speak Out Against the War
Fifty years ago, 9 November 1965 at 5 a.m., Roger LaPorte set himself on fire in front of the UN building in New York City to protest against the American involvement in the Vietnam war. Margutte wants to celebrate…
Platonic Diversions
Religion
JONATHAN SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. (from “Thoughts on Various Subjects”)
Calliope's Voice, Poetry
Follow the Anxiety of the Wind – Five unpublished poems by Max Mazzoli
MAX MAZZOLI 1 …therefore let’s go back to the shadow of the branch Or let’s follow the sharp scent of drunken flowers Next to the stone, an improvised altar, To cross the talkative time of silences To forget the gossip…
Platonic Diversions
Is Bringing Melancholy On Ourselves Useful?
FRANCES FAHY I was writing a piece when I realised that the song ‘The Parting Glass’ had started pecking at my brain like a robin at the window. For those who don’t know this song, it’s said to be of…
Platonic Diversions
Greetings from Mondovì: Heatwave
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE It’s hot here, seems it’s hot most everywhere in the northern hemisphere. Local temperatures haven’t been murderous, nothing above 38 degrees (about 100 Fahrenheit), nothing like reports of 45-plus on Sardegna and Sicily. But uncomfortably warm, the…
Platonic Diversions, The Showcase of Margutte
Rewriting Calvino
GABRIELLA MONGARDI. Abstract: an article of Gabriella Mongardi about the city of Mondovì, compared to the “Invisible Cities” of Italo Calvino. Illustrations by Lorenzo Barberis: Le città nascoste Le città continue Le città e i segni
Clio's Kingdom, Fiction
Requiem for “L’Eclisse” (epitaph)
SILVANO GREGOLI Gaspare Lobino (pseudonym of Silvano Gregoli) took a step back and looked at his desk with a tired eye. The ancient behemoth had eight drawers, eight mouths full of notebooks of various sizes, scattered sheets of paper, old…
The Ambrosia of Dionysus, The Showcase of Margutte
Exploring the links between visual arts and contemporary poetry
SILVIA PIO (edited by) Collaborations between poets and artists have appeared in Margutte many times. We are glad to introduce another, featuring Richard Berengarten and Geneviève Guétemme, on three of Berengarten’s works. Richard Berengarten is a regular host in Margutte (see…
The suitcase of Hermes, Essays
Fable Twelve
ROGAN WOLF “The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” WB Yeats Jason the unnamed, Jason the dismantled, lost in his time, having no place, the faded gold on the horns of his goat skin…
The suitcase of Hermes, The Showcase of Margutte, Essays
The Invisible City
GABRIELLA MONGARDI. Abstract: an article of Gabriella Mongardi about the city of Mondovì, compared to the “Invisible Cities” of Italo Calvino. Illustration by Lorenzo Barberis. Photo by Gabriella Mongardi
Clio's Kingdom, Fiction
Flying in the Water
SILVIA PIO Born by the sea, she lived in a fisherman’s shack with her parents and a number of brothers and sisters, and by the sea she remained. During the day, she went down to the beach and sat with…
The Staff of Orpheus, Contemporary Classical Music
What was it again that made you beautiful?”
Still Beauty, the second single of our former collaborators, She Owl, i.e. Jolanda and Demian, is out now. Already performed in their most recent concerts, this is a studio version, mixed by Sam Beste (The Vernon Spring, Hejira). The accompanying…
The suitcase of Hermes, The Showcase of Margutte, Poetry
Prayer, prophecy and poetry: Richard Berengarten’s Changing
SILVIA PIO The I Ching (Yijing) or Book of Changes is the oldest of the Chinese classics and was originally conceived and compiled as a divination manual, a handbook for fortune tellers. It is believed to be one of the world’s oldest books…