By Edward Caruso. Introduction by John Gatt-Rutter
Thursday 28 Feb, 6.30–8pm. Free RSVP event

Thursday 28 February 2019, 6.30–8pm
CO.AS.IT., 199 Faraday Street, Carlton [see Google map]

Booking: This is a free event however RSVP/registration is required. Click on the REGISTER button at the bottom of the page.

About the launch

CO.AS.IT. and Hybrid Publishers warmly invite you to celebrate the publication of Blue Milonga, Edward Caruso’s second collection of poetry. This collection opens with impressionistic perspectives of Buenos Aires and takes the reader across the Andes to sites impacted by the 2010 earthquake in central Chile. The language of Blue Milonga – moods, colours and landscapes – captures emotions and deepening connections with countries such as Argentina and Chile, with Italy often in the background.

Edward Caruso is based in Melbourne and works as a book editor. Between 2002 and 2012 he published regularly on an Italian website, ReportER, run within the regional government of Emilia-Romagna in Bologna. Also fluent in Italian and Spanish (and in his mother’s Parmesan dialect), Edward’s love of language is central to Blue Milonga, which is a companion volume to Di Alture ed Altre Utopie, his first book of poems.

John Gatt-Rutter graduated at Cambridge and has taught Italian and European Studies at several British and Australian universities, holding the Vaccari Chair in Italian Studies at La Trobe University from 1991 to 2008. Since 2008, he has remained an Honorary Associate at La Trobe and at the Italian Australian Institute. His most recent publication is The Bilingual Cockatoo: Italian Australian Life Writing. His translation of Guido Gozzano’s major poetic work, Le Farfalle, won joint first prize in the 1986 National Translation Competition of the British Comparative Literature Association.