Livia Franchini

3. Faber Social (London), 03/07/17

‘On Complicity’ and ‘Your Mouth’, two poems in collaboration with Serena Braida, in Hotel #4. Order it here. 

I translated ‘The Screwfly Solution’ by James Tiptree Jr and ‘Stable Strategies for Middle Management’ by Eileen Gunn into Italian for this wonderful project coordinated by Claudia Durastanti and Veronica Raimo, now out for Not - Nero Edizioni. You can buy the Italian translation here. 

I was interviewed by Thea Hawlin for Review 31. Click here to read more. 

Illustration by Claudia Toran.

‘Swimmer’s Ear’ in LESTE #4 [print-only]. Get it here.

‘Il Cielo in una stanza/This World We Live In’, a poetry production I directed for the Festival of Italian Literature in London, on Minima & Moralia. 

‘Monte Lungo’, in Crispin Best’s For Every Year project.

‘Estate’, in Visual Verse, July 2017. 

Little mention in Granta of STILLE POST, a collaborative translation project I curated with Laura Tenschert back in 2015, with invaluable help from Jen Calleja, Matthew Gregory, Rachel Long, Sam Riviere, Jack Underwood & Chrissy Williams.

There’s a Facebook event (being updated) here. 

The works being performed are written for the night, where over twenty poets will celebrate the potential of collaboration to generate truly innovative poetry and work firmly against the divisive and counter-intuitive idea of a reduced closeness of spirit across the continent.

In February I signed with Zoe Ross at United Agents. Hello. 

I have a little sad poem in the inaugural issue of La Errante, which you can learn all about here. 

Submissions for our second issue are now open.

‘Unmovable Mover’ is the first release in the series On Poetry from Arroyo Records. The poem was recorded live in Hackney Wick by Giulio Benetti, with Francesco Nerini, Giovanni Zaccardi, and Livia Franchini as executive producers. Listen to it on Tyrant Books.