Launch of "Un albero per ombrello - Poesie" a book by Mariano Coreno
- Date
- 27 November
09:30pm to 08:00pm
Event overview:
Mariano Coreno is one of Australia’s best-known Italian-Australian poets.
Join him as he launches his latest collection of poems Un albero per ombrello [A tree for umbrella]... and also to celebrate his 75th birthday!
This small and apparently frail book holds a secret. A secret made of extracts of the soul which have been cared for and nurtured by the author’s humanity. In their compact and dense format, Mariano’s poems offer to the reader slivers of meditation and of song distilled over a lifetime.
Apart from the author himself, the event will feature special guests Ivano Ercole (well-known media personality) and Mary Marcuccio (Vice-President Dante Alighieri Society, Melbourne). Lavinia Setini will read selected poems from Mariano’s book.
Kavisha Mazzella, with her iconic presence and personality, will add to the evening’s magic with her powerful music and voice.
The event will be in Italian
About the author:
Mariano was born in 1939 in Coreno Ausonio, in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, about 150 km south of Rome. He migrated to Australia at age 17.
Mariano’s literary production, both in English and in Italian, spans over 50 years and includes over 100 works such as Gioia Straziata (1962), The War stopped at Cassino (1979), Due Cuori ed Un Coltello (1989), Il Corvo (1993), I Am Alone Tonight (2003). He has also published several collections of poetry such as La Lunga Traversata: Raccolta Aggiornata delle Poesie di Mariano Coreno (1993), Stelle Passanti (2001) and the recent Il Tempo Straniero (2013), also launched at Co.As.It.
He has also been published in a number of journals and anthologies, such as From Slessor to Dransfield by Bernard Hickey and Gli scrittori italiani e l’emigrazione by Francesco De Nicola.
Date: Thursday, 27th November 2014, at 6.30 pm
Where: Museo Italiano, Co.As.It., 199 Faraday Street, Carlton 3053
RSVP: [email protected]; (03)9349 9021
