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Award-winning poet Moira Egan presents her latest collection of poems Amore e morte (Love and Death) at Argot Prati, in Rome, on 11 May 2022.

Once More into the Past (Daily Star Books, 2020) This was a bad year in so many ways but it was a good year to catch up on reading. One book which bowled me over and which I realise I should have read a long time back is Akhteruzzaman Elias's masterpiece, Khowabnama (Mawla Brothers, 1996). I believe it's being translated now; if it finds a good international publisher it will surely be on the shelves with the greatest novels of the last century and place Elias on the shelves with Hardy and Faulkner as a literary chronicler who made a whole region come alive at a certain moment of history. An...

Under the buildings— tufted clay, / Like tennis courts upended—runs the subway of Rome. I have been riding it for 36 years, on weekdays, to get to my workplace: a public health institute early on, a research hospital since the new millennium. The trip is 25 to 35 minutes, passing through 12 stations, and usually after a couple of stops I get to sit down. That’s when I can open my poetry books and the notebooks in which I translate them, while men and women come and go talking of the frozen fish they’ll have for dinner. Until recently, there was no signal, no field, in the trains—no...