"Ottu at the Window" vum Antoine Cassar

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Antoine Cassar (London, 1978) is a Maltese poet, translator, and editor. His poetry has featured on Literary Hub, RN Books & Arts (Australia), France 3 TV, Radio Nacional de España, SFR 2 Kultur (Switzerland), and RTV Slovenija, among others.
 
Erbgħin Jum (40 Days, EDE, 2017), a book-length poem about walking as a process of healing from depression and childhood trauma, was awarded the Malta National Book Prize, and shortlisted for the 2020 European Poet of Freedom award.
 
Passaport (2009), a long poem printed in the form of an anti-passport for all peoples and all landscapes, has been published in a dozen languages, and adapted for the stage by six different theatre companies in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Canada. Proceeds from the booklet are donated to grassroots groups providing assistance to refugees in the community. 
 
Cassar’s multilingual composition Merħba, a poem of hospitality was awarded the United Planet Writing Prize in 2009. Other publications include Silan (Ede Chapbooks, 2022), erotic poems at play with numbers in Arabic script; Map of the Mediterranean (Għaqda tal-Malti, 2013), set to music by POW Ensemble; the bilingual collection Bejn / Between (Skarta, 2011); and Mużajk, an exploration in multilingual verse (Skarta, 2008).
 

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Ottu at the Window includes a series of poems about life and exile during the lockdowns.

"Ottu at the Window"
Antoine Cassar
Erauskomm bei: D'Bréck
15€