Saturday, 30 December 2023
Saturday, 23 December 2023
Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction
Nordic Visions
The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction
Edited by Margrét Helgadóttir
The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
The Winter Spirits
Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
Saturday, 28 October 2023
A Different Darkness and Other Abominations by Luigi Musolino
A Different Darkness and Other Abominations
by Luigi Musolino
Translated by James D. Jenkins
with an introduction by Brian Evenson
Saturday, 30 September 2023
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe by Ronald Hutton
Queens of the Wild
Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe
An Investigation
by Ronald Hutton
Monday, 14 August 2023
Għera
“Leħen il-Malti”
is a yearly publication by Għaqda tal-Malti – Università. This literary society and
its annual journal were founded in 1931 by Rużar
Briffa and Ġużé Bonnici, two medical undergrads with a love for the Maltese language
who would eventually become leading figures in the history of Maltese
literature. Leħen il-Malti is
still going strong, publishing prose, poetry and academic articles by young
and/or emerging writers, alongside pieces by more established authors.
Alas, last week I was informed that neither of the two poems I submitted for this year’s edition was accepted for publication. Rejection naturally brings disappointment, but I’m still thankful that pieces of mine were included in the past three years, and happy to learn that works by authors I admire (some of whom are also friends) will be featured in the forthcoming edition.
In my view, there’s little point to writing if it is not shared, so here’s Għera (“Nakedness”), one of the two poems, finding a home on this blog. The illustration I chose is a painting by English artist Joshua Goodfellow. It’s called “Room” and is taken from the painter’s series “The Uncanny”. I think it fits the mood of the poem - a bit weird, surreal but also strangely hopeful.
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Saturday, 12 August 2023
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Buonvino e il Caso del Bambino Scomparso by Walter Veltroni
Buonvino e il caso del bambino scomparso
by Walter Veltroni
Sunday, 6 August 2023
Thursday, 3 August 2023
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Monday, 31 July 2023
Sunday, 2 July 2023
Sunday, 11 June 2023
The Possessed By Witold Gombrowicz
The Possessed
By Witold Gombrowicz
(Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
Friday, 9 June 2023
Monday, 5 June 2023
Into the Darkening Fog: Eerie Tales of the London Weird. Edited by Elizabeth Dearnley
Into the Darkening Fog:
Eerie Tales of the London Weird
Edited by Elizabeth Dearnley
Saturday, 3 June 2023
Monday, 22 May 2023
Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop
Beyond the Door of No Return
by David Diop
Translated by Sam Taylor
Monday, 8 May 2023
On the Isle of Antioch by Amin Maalouf
On the Isle of Antioch
by Amin Maalouf
Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer
Sunday, 30 April 2023
Thursday, 27 April 2023
Fjura tas-Sabbara, Fjura tax-Xadina by Irene Chias
Fjura tas-Sabbara, Fjura tax-Xadina
by Irene Chias
Translated into Maltese by Mark Vella
Wednesday, 12 April 2023
The Short End of the Sonnenallee by Thomas Brussig
