COMING UP
March 2024
Versopolis – European Poetry Festival
The Poetry Society, London
PAST HIGHLIGHTS
2023
Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival
Interview with Michał Rusinek
on the life and works of Wisława Szymborska
Festiwal Miłosza, Kraków, Poland
presentation of Paszport, with translator Zuzanna Gawron
& workshop with Ukrainian refugee women
in collaboration with Fundacja Kocham Dębniki
geġwiġija 4.0
Afro Deli, Gżira
part of Refugee Week Malta
2022
Poets in Transylvania, Sibiu
2020
Noč knjige (World Book Day), Sanje, Slovenia
with Vandana Shiva, Nahid Kazemi, Matija Solce
(online)
Nicosia Beyond Barriers (Saqi Books)
October Gallery, London
Trace – Tracing the Space of the Refugee Crisis
Panel discussion with Olga Lafazani, Behzad Khosravi, Audrey Macklin, Anwar Nilufary
moderated by Raluca Bejan
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
2019
Launch of 10th anniversary edition
of Maltese Passaport, Ede Books
Kixott, Mosta, Malta
Passport poetry workshop
Material, Zürich
Litvest, Timișoara
Lettres du Maghreb, Oujda, Morocco
Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival
public interview with Simona Cassano
& readings
Malta Campus Book Festival
interview with Rod Mengham
discussion on Forty Days with Adrian Grima
London Book Fair
with Malta National Book Council
2018
Lviv Book Forum, Ukraine
Sanje Festival, Brda, Slovenia
Launch of Potni list
Map of the Mediterranean
set to music by POW Ensemble
Maori, Valletta
Multilingual Writing, Multilingual Translation
reading & discussion with Jen Calleja, Sophie Seita
British Library, London
2017
Launch of Erbgħin Jum
Concert-reading with Alex Vella Gera (guitar),
Adolf Formosa (bass), Mark ‘Zizza’ Abela (drums)
Set design by Steven Scicluna
Studio Solipsis, Rabat, Malta
2016
Festival Gratte-Monde, Grenoble
Writing residence
Poetry workshops with refugee women & children of a migrant background
International Festival for Young Poets, Nicosia
Speakeasy, Artistry, Singapore
with David Wong & Pooja Nansi
in collaboration with Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics
(photo by Jon Gresham)
Passport tour of Australia:
Sunshine Coast Writers Festival, Coolum
with Tah Riq on guitar
in collaboration with Refugee Buddies
Yeshi Buna, Brisbane
with Zohab Zee Khan
in collaboration with Hazara Association of Australia
Berkelouw Paddington, Sydney
with Zohab Zee Khan
in collaboration with RAC – Refugee Action Coalition
Maltese Community Centre, Melbourne
Passionate Tongues open mic, Brunswick Hotel, Melbourne
Bar Orient, Fremantle
Of Borders and Bodies (talk), SymbioticA
University of Western Australia
Paper Mountain, Perth
with sound artist Nathan Thompson
in collaboration with Refugee Rights Action Network
event review by Laurent Shervington
Poetry on Migration @ Migration Museum, London
reading with Michael Rosen, Ruth Padel, Jackie Kay, Sophie Herxheimer & others
as part of exhibition Call Me By My Name: Stories from Calais and Beyond
(drawing by Nick Ellwood)
Festival Poema, Kulturfabrik, Luxembourg
avec Sophie Langevin
Maison de la Poésie Transjurassienne, Saint-Claude, France
Writing & workshop residence with immigrant schoolchildren
Macao, Milano
Presentation on borders and creative activism
Concert-adaptation of Passaporto by Et l’Europe Alors
Širi poezijo, ne strahu
(Spread poetry, not fear)
Kult3000, Metelkova, Ljubljana
2015
Pérégrinations poétiques
poetry & walking festival in the Jura mountains
organised by Saute-Frontière
Ubud Readers & Writers Festival, Bali
Passport performance
with Immanuel Adimas Gilang (reciting in Bahasa Indonesia)
& Purnawan I Kadek (singing in Balinese)
in collaboration with ngos Suaka and Basa Bali
Indonesian adaptation by Fatmawati Indah Lestari Stuby
Balinese adaptation by Putu Eka Guna Yasa & Purnawan I Kadek
plus various panels on literature, language and borders
with Ashwini Deware, Hyeonseo Lee, James Shea,
Mazin Qumsiyeh, Mohsin Hamid, Zohab Zee Khan
Lampedusa in Festival
recital of Passaporto with Giacomo Sferlazzo (guitar)
at Porta d’Europa monument
Urgence Poésie, Lodève
Marché de la poésie, Place Saint-Sulpice, Paris
Passport mini-tour of Ireland:
Dublin Writers’ Forum
University of Cork, with Ethical Development Action
Wild Geese radio show, Limerick
The Basement, Dublin, with Sinead Harte (percussion) and Ciara Ryan-Gerhardt
in collaboration with Anti-Deportation Ireland
Poema – Scène poétique, CCAN, Nancy
Maison du Théâtre et tour lycéen, Amiens
2014
Passport workshop and discussion
with Young Friends of the Earth
MundoB, Brussels
Festival Instants Vidéo Poétiques
Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille
Passeport performance with Jean-Marc Bourg
Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival
La luna e i calanchi, Aliano
presentazione di Mappa del mediterraneo
con Biagio Lieti
Passport recital at International Conference on Refugee Law
University of Sarajevo
with Dr. Barbara Harrell-Bond
in collaboration with No Border Network – Serbia
(photo by Tina Ivnik)
2013
Poetas Di(n)versos
Centro Ágora, A Coruña
con Fran Alonso y Yolanda Castaño
European Day of Languages, Sliema
performance ofMappa tal-Mediterran
with music by Effie Azzopardi & Samwel Grima
Parlate di luce
Carosino, Puglia
lettura del Passaporto con Marco Inguscio
con illustrazioni in diretta da Azzurra Cecchini
Migration and borders international conference
University of Luxembourg
Passport recital with music by
Andrew Sammut (electric piano) & Giovanni Cognoli (bass guitar)
Passeport – spectacle musical de Compagnie D’Autres Cordes
tour des lycées, Languedoc-Roussillon (France)
organisée par le Théâtre de Sète
Festival internacional de poesía de Granada, Nicaragua
PASAPORTE a la poesía
Universidad de Panamá
con Jhavier Romero
Inħobbok – Recital del día del amor y la amistad
con Magdalena Camargo Lemieszek y Jhavier Romero
La Casona, Casco Antiguo, Ciudad de Panamá
2012
Kreuzberg Museum, Berlin
Passport performance in Maltese & German with Arndt Kremer
during vernissage of Paolo Lobo’s La face cachée des mots
IndignaCtion
Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg
San Francisco International Poetry Festival
Passport recital with Matt González
plus readings with Jack Hirschman, Agneta Falk, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
Dunya Mikhail, Yahia Lababidi, Marie Silkeberg, Matt Sedillo,
Jane Hirshfield, Sasha Pimentel, among others
CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France
one-month writing residence
Multiversi nel mare tra le terre
con musica di Orazio Corsaro
Castello Maredolce di Favara, Palermo
Fondazione Orestiadi di Gibellina
2011
Launch of Bejn / Between
with music by Brikkuni & Plato’s Dream Machine
theatrical adaptation of The Long Rope by Éire Stuart & Jacob Piccinino
readings by Adrian Grima, Albert Gatt, Clare Azzopardi, Claudia Gauci,
Francesca Cassar, Keith Borg, Kevin Saliba, Kit Azzopardi & Noel Tanti
Maħżen XII, Mdina, Malta
Festival migrant’scène, Amiens
lecture-débat autour du poème Passeport
Exit07, Luxembourg
performance of The Long Rope
with Alex Vella Gera (guitar)
as supporting act to Acid Mothers Temple
Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia
followed by readings in
Kočani municipal library & main square
& Suli-An, Skopje
recital of Passaport / Пасош with Robert Veljanovski
Literature Lunch
European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels
2010
Festival de Poésie de Saint-Martin-d’Hères, Grenoble
Frankfurter Buchmesse
presentation of Pass in Maltese & German
Literary tour of India
series of recitals and workshops:
Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi & Bengaluru
Jadavpur & Rabindra Bharati Universities, Kolkata
1 Shanti Road, Bengaluru (writing residence)
Bangalore University
Deepa Academy for the Visually Impaired, Bengaluru
Hong Kong Reader, Kowloon, Hong Kong
with Desmond Sham and Asian Students Association
THROUGH Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
presentation of Passport
with Carys Jones, Zebekiah Bortner, Brian Aylward, Tim McManus, Mathieu Stewart
in collaboration with ngo PSCORE Korea
A Coruña Book Fair
presentation of Pasaporte
with Yolanda Castaño and ngo Ecodesarrollo Gaia
Diablos Azules, Madrid
presentación de Pasaporte
(trad. Carmen Herrera & Antoine Cassar)
con Valerio Cruciani
Voix de la Méditerranée, Lodève
lecture du Passeport avec Jean-Marc Bourg
musique de Alain Désir
texte adapté du maltais par Elizabeth Grech
Cabaré de letras dispersas
Diablos Azules, Madrid
Marché de la poésie, Paris
International Translation Workshop, Dane
& Ljubljana Poetry Festival, Slovenia
Festival des Migrations, Luxembourg
launch of Passport
in French (trad. Elizabeth Grech, performed by Lambert Schlechter)
English (trad. Albert Gatt & Antoine Cassar)
and Luxembourgish (trad. Francis Kirps)
in association with Comité de liaison des associations d’étrangers
Caffè Fandango, Roma
presentazione di Passaporto
con Biagio Lieti e Giovani Senza Frontiere
2009
Launch of Passaport
with Clare Azzopardi, Norbert Bugeja, Walid Nabhan,
Whatstheirnames Theatre, Tibet Society Malta, Robert Farrugia Flores,
and Migrants Solidarity Movement
Maħżen XII, Mdina, Malta
Poesiefestival Berlin
performance of Merħba, a poem of hospitality
Onzè festival de poesia de la mediterrània, Mallorca
Københavns 4. Internationale Poesifestival
Literaturwerkstatt Berlin
reading & interview on multilingual verse
Leipziger Buchmesse
Bukowski Club, Madrid
con Ramón Nausía
2008
La poesia mischia lingua, Fondo Verri, Lecce
U(ma)NIversi
Castello Normanno Svevo, Sannicandro di Bari
reading with Nabil Salameh of Radiodervish
XIII Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Bari
2007
Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival
Launch of Ħbula Stirati
Tal-Milorda, Floriana
with Mario Vella, Alex Vella Gera, Kevin Saliba & Ċali Grima
2006
Poeżija Gardjola
Maltese and US Poets at Ġnien il-Gardjola, Senglea
with Moira Egan & Damiano Abeni
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