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TIZIANO FRATUS: A POET MIXING VISIONS OF NATURE AND HUMANITY

Tiziano Fratus grew up looking at and listening the elements of nature. Long summers alone in the wide plane of Lumbardy and after among the beautiful hills of Monferrato, in Piedmont. As a young adult he begin to surf in the woods and ancient forests of the alps. Reaching the kingdom of monumental conifers in California he found a new reason, a new idea of identity. So new trees and roots and leaves blossomed on the paper and Fratus leave space to the voice of nature.

Among his poetry collections Il molosso (The Molossus, 3 editions – Edizioni Torino Poesia), Il respiro della terra (The Breath of the land – Edizioni Torino Poesia), Nuova Poesia Creaturale (New Creatural Poetry – Edizioni Torino Poesia), Un quaderno di radici (A Notebook of Roots – Feltrinelli), Musica per le foreste (Music for the Forests – First edition Mondadori, second edition Aboca), Vergine dei nidi (Virgin of the Nests – Feltrinelli), Poesie creaturali. Un bosco in versi (Creaturing Poems. A wood in lines – Libreria della Natura). Last creation: Gli alberi intorno ad Auschwitz (Trees around Auschwitz, a cluster of compositions that will be published on Spring 2020 in the new edizion of Music for the Forests).

Fratus’ poetry has been translated in ten languages and published by international magazines and journals; he has been selected for the international platform Versopolis that connect largest european poetry festivals. In 2010 Creaturing, a selection of his poetry, has been published in the US by Marick Press and presented across the country, in 2017 a new selection titled Eleven Root Poems has been translated and published in UK by Five Seasons Press and presented in Ledbury Poetry Festival. He’s columnist for the newspaper La Stampa and he’s living in a little village at the foot of the Italian Alps. In 2015 he was honored by Cinemambiente Festival with Acorn Prize for his Green and New Nature Literature.

>>> NEW! Listen the reading Poems from Silence: five poems whispered by Tiziano Fratus | Selfportrait of landscape with mulberry, Warnings to the naturalists, The last forest, Baby-girl, Notes from the stream | Duration: min. 5.10

>>> NEW! Read Baby Girl, a poem to celebrate the Holocaust Memorial Day

>>> Tiziano Fratus – A new poetic voice in Europe – Versopolis. Where Poetry Lives
>>> Creaturing – Fratus poetry collection in the US – Marick Press in Detroit
>>> Double Skin – 5 Italian Poets and 5 Singaporean Poets – Ethos Books in Singapore
>>> Eleven Root Poems – The book, Five Season Press in Hereford
>>> Tiziano Fratus guest at Ledbury Poetry Festival 2017
>>> Tiziano Fratus guest at Struga Poetry Evenings 2018
>>> Read 3 poems (bilingual) in «Conversation Poetry Quarterly» (UK)
>>> Creaturing – Ilya Kaminski & Kathryn Farris, Web del Sol
>>> Creatures, Inside and Out: Tiziano Fratus’s Creaturing by Michale O’ Sullivan, Cha: an Asian Literary Journal
>>> Creaturing reviewed by Paul Martinez Pompa – Big Bridge

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ABOUT HIS POETRY

«Tiziano Fratus is a passionate poet with a clear, distinct voice and a keen awareness that history opensthe door of our future. We have much to learn from these engaged and engaging poems, much for which to be genuinely grateful» Sam Hamill

«Creaturing by Tiziano Fratus is the book of a citizen who is able to look at history through its abstractions and details and find music where others saw propaganda, find humanity where others saw statistics, find remmbering alive and afire, among things too many of us are ready to forget» Ilya Kaminski & Kathryn Farris – Web del Sol / Poetry International

«Fratus’ poetry explores what it means to be a young italian poet today in the shadow of historical, cultural and traditional forces» Francesco Levato – The Poetry Center of Chicago

«In his writing, Fratus is guided by an un common urgency and unconditional faith in poetry: his writing doesn’t hold back on its energy» Antonello Borra – University of Vermont

«Tiziano Fratus is a storyteller, and a very compassionate one at that. His books, although structured as collections of poems, have the narrative interest and scale of novel. He ha san uncanny, instinctive way of enetering other lives, and this is what gives his writing its amazing detail» Mani Rao – University of Nevada

«Francesco Levato’s translation into english of Tiziano Fratus’ collection Creaturing is stunning in its seemingly effortless and lyrically precise momentum. There is non question, this is an important collection and a most impressive and accomplished translation» Malena Morling – University of North Carolina

«The book’s title, Creaturing, begets further irony as we come to see humanity itself as a king of creature that engages in all sorts of vile behavior white actual animals, by contrast, are rendered as potentially noble beings» Paul Martinez Pompa – Big Bridge

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LAST BOOKS

– Wo Lyrik Zuhause ist. Tiziano Fratus – Publisher: Edition Aramo in Vienna
– L’Italia è un giardino / Italy is a Garden – Publisher: Laterza in Rome/Bari
– Il sole che nessuno vede / The Sun which Nobody sees – Publisher: Ediciclo in Portogruaro
– Poèmes / Poems / Poesie – Publisher: La Traductière in Paris
– Vergine dei nidi. poesie creaturali / Virgin of the Nests. Creatural poems – Publisher: Feltrinelli in Milan
– Eleven root poems / Undici poesie radice – Publisher: Five Seasons Press in Hereford
– I giganti silenziosi / Silent Giants – Publisher: Bompiani in Milan
– Manuale del perfetto cercatore d’alberi (a new edition) – Publisher: Feltrinelli in Milan
– Il bosco è un mondo / Wood is a World (Essay) – Publisher: Einaudi in Turin
– Waldo Basilius (a gothic fairy-tale) – Publisher: Pelledoca in Milan
– Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies. Italy and the Environmental Humanities – Publisher: University of Virginia Press in Charlottesville
– Poesie creaturali. Un bosco in versi / Creature Poems. A wood in verses – Publisher: Libreria della Natura in Milan
– Giona delle sequoie. Viaggio fra i giganti rossi del Nord America / Jonas of the Sequoias. Travel among Red Giants in North America – Publisher: Bompiani in Milan
– Interrestràre. Quaderno di meditazioni / A notebook of meditations – Publisher: Lindau in Turin)

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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

Tiziano Fratus ha been invited by national and international Festivals (Singapore Writers Festival, Comedie du Livre in Montpellier, Literatur und Wein in Krems – Osterreich, Druskininkai Poetic Fall in Lithuania, Turin Book Fair, Genoa International Poetry Festival, Ars Poetica Bratislava, Poestate Lugano, Bookcity Milan, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Mantua Festivaletteratura, Firenze Book Fair, Rome Ritratti di Poesia Festival, Milan Tempo di Libri, Torino Spiritualità, Goran’s Spring in Zagreb, Struga Poetry Evenings), Italian Institutes of Culture (Singapore, Chicago, Lisbon, Marsille, Amsterdam, Lugano, Edimburgh), Universities (Columbia – New York, Vermont – Burlington, Illinois – Chicago, State University – San Diego, Statale – Torino), cultural centres (Book Center – Minneapolis, Casa Fernando Pessoa – Lisbon, Felix Kulpa Art Gallery – Santa Crux, Jersey Arts Centre – Jersey), botanical gardens and parks.

[All the poems reproduced in this page are translated by Eleonora Matarrese]

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