Poems and interview in Shared Waters
Poems and interview by Adrian Grima published in Shared Waters. Soundings in Postcolonial Literatures, Borg Barthet, Stella (Ed.), Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2009, XIII, 412 pp. Series: Cross/Cultures – Readings in…
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The World in Alphabetical Order
Published in Babelmed As I prepare to write this piece about Péter Zilahy’s ingenious picture dictionary for the over fives, Le Monde announces the arrest, after over a decade defying…
New Women
Babelmed | 31/10/2006 Maltese literature has traditionally failed to “tell” the stories of “real” Maltese women. This is a serious lacuna because it is the vision of the writer which…
Rakkmu, Writing Poetry to Tell Stories
Babelmed | Karsten Xuereb | 20/03/2006 On 1st March 2006 Adrian Grima launched his third collection of poetry, Rakkmu (embroidery), to an audience of readers, writers and friends at the…
On Becoming a Cultural Wasteland
Babelmed – 31/03/2006 Adrian Grima meets the Maltese jazz guitarist Sandro Zerafa before he returns to multicultural Paris. If Sandro were appointed Minister for Culture in Malta what would he…
The Dislocation of Being Human, and Cypriot
Babelmed | 11/10/2005 The Cypriot-born cosmopolitan writer and academic Stephanos Stephanides has finally published his first collection of poetry, Blue Moon in Rajasthan and Other Poems. Here to talks to…
Birds of Passage
Babelmed | 16/09/2005 Birds of Passage by Maltese-Australian author Lou Drofenik is a rare novel about Maltese migration to Australia, but it is also an equally rare account that celebrates,…
Re-Thinking the Mediterranean
Counterpunch| Babelmed | Omar Barghouti, Adrian Grima | 16/09/2005 Rather than succumb to the “clash” temptation by reinforcing “defensive self-pride, ” it is time to come to terms with “the…
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