'reading through this anthology has been an immensely enjoyable, stimulating experience.'
Tempo, Excursions in 21st-Century Italian Poetry reviewed by Caroline Maldonado
'The title of this collection indicates that it makes no claims to be a revised canon of contemporary Italian poetry. ‘Excursions’ suggests a more leisurely amble, a more personal and democratic approach. The Italian editor, Luca Paci, who has lived and worked in the UK for over 20 years sets out his principles and intentions in the introduction:
Poetry is an essential tool to understand and question at a deeper level events, feelings and attitudes of present and past, recognising the complexity of reality in a radically different way.
'He highlights the diversity of Italian poetry in linguistic practice, form and origin. These are poems that criticise the language of power and reach for the people at the margin of the new global economy (women, the disabled, transgender people, migrants) and explore, with bold originality, the experience of separation and exclusion.'
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