Planet or satellite, refuge or prison, condemnation or promise of a fresh start. What is an island, but a mini-continent? Are islands as finite and self-contained as we may wish to believe? "L'île, c'est d'abord le voyage vers l'île." Hervé Hamon invites us to journey from island to island alphabetically, or haphazardly, following the whim of countless winds with ancient, musical names. In this podcast we begin from Isla de Chiloé, Patagonia, soon returning to the Mediterranean. Crete, Ikaría. Ithaca isn't in the book, for some reason. Malta is, for the wrong reasons. We'll also hear a little poetry by the late Oliver Friggieri, Odysséas Elytis, Karl Schembri, and music by Theodorákis. Allons-y. Prenons le large, et l'étroit.



2 - Dictionnaire amoureux des îles

The final novel in the Montalbano series, kept under lock and key until exactly a year after Camilleri left us. Does il Commissario die? No spoilers. In this podcast we focus on “vigatese”, Camilleri’s very own blend and style of italo-siciliano, taught passively to the reader as it evolves from novel to novel. Una forma d’innamoramento linguistico. The hardback edition of Riccardino offers a fascinating lexical comparison between the “prima stesura”, completed in 2005, and the definitive, more “sicilianeggiante” version of 2016. Featuring Catarella, the clumsy, good-hearted receptionist, also with a language of his own. Ah dottori dottori, dimando compressione e pirdonanza! Plus a little music - in Sicilian - by Franco Battiato and Giuni Russo. 



3 - Andrea Camilleri, Riccardino

"There will be other days, / there will be other voices. / You will smile alone. / The cats will know." -- Pavese's final poem to his lover Constance Dowling. In italiano, English (tr. Linh Dinh), και λίγο ελληνικά (μφ. Γιάννης Παππάς). 

Ninja's Poetry Bites - The Cats Will Know, Cesare Pavese

“Quando ti viene una nostalgia, non è mancanza, è presenza…” Words from Rafaniello, the refugee cobbler, in Erri de Luca’s novel Montedidio (2001). Dedicated, in particular, to Greeks far from home who cannot join their loved ones for Orthodox Easter, due to coronaborders. English translation by Michael Moore. 



Così parlò Glorioula - Erri de Luca on homesickness

Cats teach us the importance of laziness. As does Pablo Neruda, in two poems written in his happy fifties at Isla Negra - Oda a la pereza and El perezoso. Translations by Stephen Mitchell and Alastair Reid.

Ninja's Poetry Bites - Lazybones, Pablo Neruda

Qari tal-poeżija "Ħrafa" ta' Claudia Gauci u kumment dwarha minn Immanuel Mifsud

07 Post90 - Ħrafa - Claudia Gauci

The Passport has been set to music in different languages, in different forms.

One version in Italian, by indie band ViziDiForma, is included in their album 'Bitter' (2022).

https://vizidiforma.bandcamp.com/track/passaporto

ViziDiForma - Passaporto - dall'album Bitter

Lectura de poetas en el marco del congreso Redes II Literatura y activismo en Latinoamérica. Segundas jornadas de estudios literarios y culturales latinoamericanos en los países nórdicos, que tuvo lugar en la universidad NTNU, en Trondheim, el 11 y 12 de mayo de 2023. 
Los poetas son Violeta Barrientos Silva (lugar de residencia: Lima), Roxana Crisólogo (lugar de residencia: Helsinki), Jorge Locane (lugar de residencia: Oslo), José Luis Rico Carrillo (lugar de residencia: Helsinki)
Para más información ir a https://poesiaalpasopodcast.wordpress.com/2023/05/18/21-poesia-y-activismo/

21: Poesía y activismo

Music written and produced by Rory McCarron (The Verbal Arts Centre, Derry).

Deciphered Lips

Presentazione della collana audiovisiva
la poesia italiana: rime, strofe, versi da Dante a Pasolini
di Corrado Augias e Valerio Magrelli
Regia: Rosario M. Montesanti

La poesia italiana: rime, strofe, versi da Dante a Pasolini (15-09-2015)

Mistieden: Ġorġ Pisani
Data: 04 ta’ Novembru 1961

Il-Professur Ġużè Aquilina jintervista lill-poeta Ġorġ Pisani. L-intervista tibda fuq il-poeżija bikrija ta’ Pisani li dehret f’Il-Għid taż-Żgħożija, li wasslitu biex jitqies bħala l-poeta taż-żgħożija, u kif issa li huwa mmatura jħares lejha. Wara Pisani jaqra diversi poeżiji mill-ewwel ġabra tiegħu u jgħaddi għall-poeżiji bit-tema tal-preistorja, “Għar Dalam”, “Ħaġar Qim” u “Il-Ġgantija”. Pisani jiddiskuti u jaqra il-poeżiji marbuta mal-ilsien Malti u jagħlaq b’poeżiji oħra miż-żewġ ġabriet l-oħra tiegħu “Il-Valz tad-Dellijiet” u “Melodiji u Kuluri”.

ViziDiForma - Passaporto - dall'album Bitter

Antoine Cassar

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