Poet Caroline Maldonado is Chichester Open Mic Poetry guest

Poet Caroline Maldonado, who splits her time between England and Italy, will be in the city to read at Open Mic Poetry at the New Park Centre, Chichester, on Wednesday 19 April, starting at 7.30pm. The main focus of her reading will be her response to the devastating earthquake which struck Central Italy in 2016, but she’ll also be including poems about the Renaissance golden age and particularly the writing of one of her literary heroines, Isabella Morra.

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Caroline is a poet and translator. Four of her poetry translations from Italian have been published by Smokestack Books (2013-2022) and include Isabella, translations of poems by Renaissance poet, Isabella Morra, together with her own poems about Isabella’s life, which was commended in the Warwick University’s Women in Translation prize 2019. Her poems have appeared in many print and online magazines and in anthologies. Her pamphlet What they say in Avenale and her full collection Faultlines (Vole Books 2022) both draw on her experience of life in Italy.

Spokesman Barry Smith said: “Caroline will read some poems from Isabella but will mainly be reading from Faultline’s sequence in response to central Italy’s devastating 2016 earthquake. In the second part of the evening, local writers will get the chance to share the platform with Caroline and read their latest poems. It promises to be a stimulating evening. We welcome poetry from old friends and newcomers to the open mic in any style and any subject. Just sign up on the door to join in the reading. Those who prefer to sit back and listen are equally welcome.”

Open Mic Poetry, Wednesday, 19 April, 7.30pm, Old Dojo Room, New Park Centre, Chichester. Entrance £5 on the door. http://www.sdpf.org.uk