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Between the birth of the poet's daughter and the deaths of his parents, the poems in Monsoon Diary attempt to make sense of the world, from a mid-life flight from home en famille to new perspectives on both the past and the future.

Portuguese and English translation on facing pages.

DOMINGO NOTARO (b. 1939, Calabria, Italy) is a leading Italian painter and sculptor whose work has been exhibited not just all over Italy but also in such far-flung places as Buenos Aires, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Brussels, Dubrovnik, Zagreb and Ankara. He is also a poet of some distinction, and the present volume, E-le-menti delle parole / The mind-elements of words - a bilingual volume with translations by Catherine O'Brien and Kay McCarthy - is his first full-length appearance in English. Praised and encouraged in his painting by Louis Aragon, Pablo Picasso and Leonardo Sciascia among others, Notaro displays in his poems the same fleetness of foot and mind, and an alertness to the possibilities of his chosen media, a constant sense of wonder about where the experiment leads.

How do writers write? What do they do when they're stuck for ideas? Or how do they take those still vague ideas to the next level, maybe even all the way to publication? Whether you belong to a writing group running low on steam, or are struggling on your own and looking for some helpful direction, this book - now in its fifth reprinting and updated for this new edition - offers all the practical assistance you'll ever need. Covering everything from ideas for generating raw material to form and technique in poetry and prose, prize-winning poet and writer Pat Boran (who has conducted hundreds of writing workshops over the years) takes a hands-on approach to the creative writing process, concluding with a new section for those considering their own first steps towards publication. Accessible, enjoyable and stimulating, The Portable Creative Writing Workshop is an ideal starting point (and travel companion) for anyone setting out on the writer's journey. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Poet, fiction writer and publisher Pat Boran has been conducting writing workshops for many years. In that time he has published more than a dozen collections of poetry and prose and has edited more than a hundred books by other poets and writers. He is a former editor of Poetry Ireland Review, has presented poetry and arts programmes on radio and television, and is a member of Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of writers and artists. His most recent publications are The Next Life (poems, 2013) and the prose memoir The Invisible Prison (2009

News that the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature had been awarded to the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer was greeted with widespread approval by poets and poetry readers the world over. The author of fifteen collections of poems, Tranströmer had in fact been nominated for the prize every year since 1993, a sign of his huge standing and importance in world poetry, undiminished in recent years despite a stroke in 1990 that left him partially paralyzed and unable to speak. The Nobel citation praised Tranströmer''s poems of "condensed, translucent images" which give us "fresh access to reality", and that startling originality is everywhere to be seen in the poems gathered here, first published as two separate volumes by the Dedalus Press, The Wild Marketplace (1985) and For the Living and the Dead (1994), both translated by John F. Deane, the latter in collaboration with the poet himself.