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This volume is summing up three years (2023, 2024, 2025) of the ""Mihai Eminescu Poetry Festivals"" in Australia - in which Australian Poets, as well as some Romanians ones, respond to curated themes from the work of the best known Romanian poet. For each festival some 10-15 poets are invited participate and respond - and their work, alongside the Eminescu poems providing the points of inspiration - are represented bilingually in English and Romanian, in this volume. The English translations of the Mihai Eminescu poems have been selected from the volume ""Romanian Poetry from its Origins to the Present: A bilingual Anthology - Daniel Ionita, Daniel Reynaud, Adriana Paul & Eva Foster - Australian-Romanian Academy for Culture, Sydney 2020) The three thems for the three years respectively have been 1.The Universal Within The Local (2023) - or how Eminescu's local artistic roots travel into the universal space, filtered and reimagined by contemprary poets. The Eminescu poems chosen for this have been Sonnet - Gone are the Years, Ode (in an Antique Meter), Why Won't you Come. 2 - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Poet (2024)- exploring the singular loneliness of the artist in an hyper-connected but paradoxically fragmented world. The Eminescu poem chosen as the inspiration anchor has been The Evening Star (Luceafărul). 3 - Poetry of Resilience (2025) - exploring how could the poet, and poetry provide resilience in an increasingly belligerant and fraught world. The Eminescu poem for this was Glossa.

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Hailing from Bucharest, Romania, Daniel Ionita teaches part time at the University of Technology Sydney, and is president of the Australian-Romanian Academy for Culture. Daniel's poetry has been published in Romania (Hanging Between the Stars - Minerva, 2013; The Island of Words from Home - Limes Cluj 2017) and Australia (Short Bursts of Eternity - Flying Islands 2020, Pentimento - Interactive Press,2021). He was principal editor & translator for the bilingual anthologies Testament - 400 Years of Romanian Poetry (Minerva, Bucharest 2019), The Bessarabia of My Soul (Mediaton, Toronto 2018) andReturn Ticket from Sydney to Bistrița (ARA Publishing, Sydney 2022) Angela Stretch is a Sydney based artist, writer, producer and presenter of radiocultural programs, originally from Christchurch, New Zealand. She is curator ofthe Poetry Sydney Program at the Brett Whiteley Studio, Art Gallery of NSW.Angela explores knowledge and perception, expectation and plausibility, articulating alternate orders of truth that challenge constructs of time, sense ofplace, and systems of thought. A Romanian writer living in Sydney, Australia, George Roca is one of the mostsignificant promoters of Romanian culture outside Romania, chief-editor topublications international literary publications, in print and online, such as""Literary Confluences"", ""Pro-Diaspora"", ""Bumerang Literar""and many others -for which he produced and edited over ten thousand articles over the last 30years. ln poetry, he published the volumes ""Escape from the Virtual Space"",""Seeking the lsland of Happiness"" and ""Multilingual Encripted Poems"" -many ofhis poems being included in numerous anthologies - among others ""Testament- 400 Years of Romanian Poetry"" and ""Romanian Poetry from its Origins to thePresent"". George has also produced volumes of essays and interwiews. Themonumental (four volumes, 2000 pages) ""The Secret of Writing"" - in which heinvites writers to confess what has driven them start writing, is worth a specialmention; as are the four volumes of interviews with famous sports and artisticpersonalities titled ""Chatting to the Stars"". George Roca is the HonoraryPresident of the Australian-Romanian Academy for Culture; among the manydistinctions received, In 2019 he was also awarded Medal of Merit by theMinister for Romanians Abroad for his significant contribution to the promotionof Romanian culture outside Romania

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