Sekwenzi: poeżiji 2017-2022 By Joe Friggieri Published by Kite Group I have always admired Joe Friggieri’s poems for their lucidity, admirable musicality and elegant commentary on the life not just poets lead, but also many others like me who so often stop to ponder on the life they are living and where it is inevitably leading them. The poems in the present collection, all written in his early 1970s, might be the last he will publish in book form. It is a substantial collection, and the fact that it is enriched (unusually for Friggieri) with a critical essay by Mark Vella, and a number of quotations from reviewers of his earlier volumes of verse plus a quotation of an extract from an essay by Friggieri’s greatly admired guru and friend, the late Peter Serracino Inglott, may indicate that the book is a formal and quite handsome nunc dimittis to his poetic career. The last two poems here also hint he may think it is time for him to stop. In Karovana, his fellow members in a caravan (of poets?) continue their journey, whereas he says sand got in his eyes, leaving him imprisoned in the cage of time (“magħluq fil-ħabs taż-żmien”). In turn, the extraordinary last poem Kliemi...
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