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2 July 2009

First three and a half minutes of
Merħba, a poem of hospitality
Akademie der Künste, Poesiefestival Berlin

16 May 2009

Performance during a reading dedicated to love poetry, at the
Københavns 4. Internationale Poesifestival
Literaturhaus, Copenhagen

Ciao amore ciao (Danish translation by Peter Wessel), Muñeca checa, Maltese poem U niġi nfittxek (And I come to find you)

11 dicembre 2008

Umaniversi, Castello Normanno Svevo, Sannicandro di Bari.

İstanbul İstanbul Olalı, di Sezen Aksu,
seguito dalla lettura della poesia
Hüzün
insieme a Nabil Salameh dei Radiodervish.
Traduzione italiana di Damiano Abeni.

Gonbidapena
Traduzione italiana di Isabella Massardo
letta da Valentina de Carlo.

28 May 2008

Performance at the
XIII Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Mediterranée
Fiera del Levante, Bari, Italy

9 February 2007

Performance at poetry festival Sittalive
Foyer Européen, Luxembourg

C’est la vie

Ciao amore ciao

4 August 2006

Peace vigil in solidarity with the people of Lebanon and Israel
Għar id-Dud, Malta

Nhar ta’ Tnejn

SEPTEMBER 2009

Merħba, a poem of hospitality

Grand Prize Winner
of the

United Planet Writing Contest 2009

Article on MaltaMedia

Aqra Merħba bil-Malti

Read the English adaptation of Merħba

Listen to an early performance of the poem at d:qliq, Luxembourg
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Antoine Cassar
Born in London to Maltese parents in 1978, Antoine Cassar grew up and studied in England, Malta, Italy and Spain. He is currently completing a doctoral thesis on the origins of the sonnet. He lives in Luxembourg, where he works as a translator.
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an exploration in multilingual verse

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Mużajk is a work in progress exploring the possibilities of multilingual verse, an attempt to braid together the sounds and cadences of different tongues into a fluid rhythm and a coherent stream of thought.

Written in a blend of English, French, Italian, Maltese and Spanish, and later sowing in other languages according to the subject, the mużajki or mosaics journey through a variety of themes, among them the pleasure and futility of living, love unrequited or fulfilled, the beauty of the Mediterranean, the desire for simplicity in an ever-increasingly complicated lifestyle, the absurdity of colonialism and its after-effects, and the at once exhilarating and disorienting feeling of variety itself.

The first series of mosaics was published in July 2007 in the Maltese poetry anthology Ħbula stirati (Tightropes). A handful of mosaics have also appeared in publications in Italy (Nuovi Argomenti), Kuwait (The Daily Star), Australia (The Chimaera) and the U.S. (The Drunken Boat, Other Voices).

In May 2008, Antoine Cassar performed at the Biénnale des Jeunes Créateurs d'Europe et de la Méditerranée in Puglia, Italy. In October 2008 Cassar was awarded a 'Segnalazione' in the international Premio Nosside.

During 2009, Cassar was invited to present the book Mużajk - an exploration in multilingual verse (Edizzjoni Skarta) at the Leipziger Buchmesse, the Copenhagen Poetry Festival and the Poesiefestival Berlin.

In September 2009, the long narrative poem Merħba, a poem of hospitality, part of a new project combining verse in Maltese with a wider variety of tongues, was declared the Grand Prize winner of the United Planet Writing Contest.

For more information on the mosaic project, read the introduction, or click here to read and listen to a selection of the poems.
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Disclaimer
The opinions expressed in the text of this site are solely those of the author, and are not to be associated with any group or institution in which the author is or has been involved.

© Antoine Cassar 2009.