Latest Books Published by
Gradiva Publications
April 2025
Author: Donato Nitti
Title: Where the Sky Ends
Review:
Donate Nitti aspires to a cerulean song that could stop or slow down the inexorable passage of time; he aspires to draw new horizons from oblivion, perhaps even to be able to immerse himself into the space of time.
Irene Marchegiani
Cover image by the Author
March 2025
Author: Monica Martinelli
Title: Taming Time
Review:
Taming Time is simultaneously to live and to create poetry. And, at the same time, to control it, to hold it, to rein it.
Plinio Perilli
February 2025
Author: Tamara Colacicco
Title: Neptune's Sea
Review:
Surprisingly original is her creation of a delicate love story set in a mythological context.
Annalisa Macchia
April 2024
Author: Michele Brancale
Title: The Singing of Things
Review:
Michele Brancale is a true poet. He rejects clichés and does not care to ingratiate himself with the preachers of literary criticism.
Plinio Perilli
April 2023
Author: Pasquale Di Palmo
Title: Days of Cruel Separation
Review:
This is one of the most challenging of Di Palmo's books. It contains the pregnant poem Centro Alzheimer, dedicated to his father Cosimo, and Canzone delle torri telemetriche, composed during the recent pandemic.
Marco Vitale
February 2023
Author: Luisa Puttini Hall
Title: Fireflies in the Wood
Review:
«Leaning against a mudguard /
we are in this instant /
both on Earth and elsewhere»
Luisa Puttini Hall
January 2023
Author: Annalisa Macchia
Title: You Cannot stare at the Sun
Review:
Annalisa Macchia's honest poetry conserves the breath and rhythm of tenderness, an emotive and expressive quality.
Plinio Perilli
March 2022
Author: Giuseppe Grattacaso
Title: The Will-Be World
Review:
Giuseppe Grattacaso is one of our most talented sidereal poets; his observation reaches out to the inquiry about the boundaries of cosmos, the existence, nature, and purpose of the Creator.
Alessandro Fo
January 2022
Author: Luigi Cannillo
Title: Between Windows and Skies
Review:
Luigi Cannillo is a poet whose work deserves to be read in its entirety to enable us to review, not only his own private life, but also the universality of the sky.
Luca Ariano
October 2021
Author: Henry Ariemma
Title: A Gallon of Kerosene
Review:
Ariemma's poetry is that of a young, new stoic: why not? First there is sentiment, then feeling...
Plinio Perilli
July 2021
Author: Sergio D'Amaro
Title: The Bridge of Hiedelberg
Review:
D'Amaro reveals a background in cross-references either explicit or inexplicit.
Cosma Siani
April 2021
Author: Patrizia Villani
Title: Sea Nest
Review:
A joy which Villani finds intact in the enumeration of sensations that are old and new at the same time, forever carved into the substance of memory.
Giancarlo Pontiggia
February 2021
Author: Amos Mattio
Title: The Mechanism Behind
Review:
Un lavoro raffinato con una serie di immagini di limpida ed enigmatica presenza...
Maurizio Cucchi
February 2021
Author: Maria Rita Bozzetti
Title: Permanent Migration
Review:
The poet is celebrating an infinite passage of the "I" towards hopes and new prospects, a "migration" indeed and a long route courageously taken to "prolong a dream"...
Vincenzo Guarracino
October 2020
Author: Luigi Martellini
Title: The Last Ones, Poems 2017-2020
Review:
Un libro denso e compatto sull'alfa-omega, sul tutto e nulla della vita, che coinvolge e commuove il lettore.
Luigi Fontanella
September 2020
Author: Alessandro Carrera
Title: Songs of Purgatory
Review:
... Non è mai stata mia intenzione allontarnarmi troppo dalla seducente musica della metrica e delle rime.
Alessandro Carrera
July 2020
Author: Alessandra Paganardi
Title: A Dream of Words
Review:
The poet Paganardi is a tireless investigator of the most hidden enclosures of our souls, continuously looking for a beneficial fountainhead that can become a "warm shelter" ...
Irene Marchegiani
May 2020
Author: Annelisa Alleva
Title: Selected Poems
Review:
Her poetry accompanies us from the singularity to the unequal harmony of the whole.
Paolo Febbraro
March 2020
Author: Giancarlo Pontiggia
Title: The Motion of Things
Review:
Al centro del libro, la poesia su Kythera, immota e mitica nel suo splendore sovrano: una sosta di luce e di bellezza gratuita...
Giancarlo Pontiggia
February 2020
Author: Marco Vitale
Title: Emblems of Sleep & Other Poems
Review:
Where shall I rest / by what unhealable fate do the lamps end up coinciding?
Tr. into English by Barbara Carle
January 2020
Author: Fabrizio Dall'Aglio
Title: And Ink Like This
Review:
Here, then, is a timeless poet of the Italian world.
Thomas McCarthy - Alessandro Gentili
Songs of Purgatory, by Alessandro Carrera
"This book is made up of five poems and sixteen songs, and it would not exist without Ron Banerjee's translations, which have preserved, whenever it was possible, the rhythm and the rhyme scheme of the original Italian text. Songs and rhymed poetry are supposed to be untranslatable - until you find the right translator, that is, and this book is proof that I did find the right translator. "
(A. Carrera)
Recording, editing, and mix: Yuka Acanfora, Giuseppe Gallucci, c/o Aeroplano studio, Via Pinturicchio 25, 20133 Milano, Italy.