https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/1046 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:11:19 GMT 2026-07-01T05:11:19Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/147750 Title: The shadow : poems for the children of Gaza, by Ahmed Miqdad and John P. Portelli [Book review] Authors: Bonello Rutter Giappone, Krista Abstract: In their volume The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza, the poets Ahmed Miqdad and John P. Portelli offer what they call a ‘poetry of resistance’ (2024: 7), the fruit of their long-distance collaboration and solidarity. This is a friendship forged in adversity, as they both contend with the ravages of the body and spirit through war (Miqdad) and cancer (Portelli).; For the most part, the poetry (particularly Miqdad’s) eschews metaphor: the images are literal, realised. As the ‘blood mixes with the flour I carry’ (AM, ‘Blood and Flour’), we are taken beyond the visual, to the tactile, and physical. [excerpt] Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/147750 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/147370 Title: CounterText : volume 12 : issue 1 Authors: Callus, Ivan; Corby, James Abstract: - Table of Contents:; Editorial; Kevin Hart : The CounterText Interview. At the Margins of Mystery - Kevin Hart and Robert Farrugia; Guest Editors’ Introduction: Frame/Framing - Paweł Kaczmarski and Marta Koronkiewicz; This is going to be about everything; or, Framing the Limits of the Post-Literary - Ivan Callus; Organic Unity in the Age of the Free Market: The Pragmatist Tradition and the Question of Frame - Adam Partyka; Rimbaud Framing Kiefer Framing Joyce - Rod Mengham; One Moment, Two Frames: The Peripheral Coast - Dragana Rankovic; Easels Warped My Flesh; or, Could Ansel Adams Win the World Press Photo of the Year? - Mateusz Zaboklicki; Framing Yourself: Autofiction and Form - Zuzanna Sala and Łukasz Zurek; Gordonalia: an excerpt from Situations - Ansgar Allen; Notes on Contributors Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/147370 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/147358 Title: Editorial [CounterText, 12(1)] Authors: Callus, Ivan; Corby, James Abstract: It feels almost inevitable that the previous number of CounterText, a special issue on the theme of Omission/s, should be followed up with a number centred on Frame/Framing. What to include when not omitting, and how, in that act, to (re)frame criteriologies, conceptualities, ideas, practices, and more, becomes a theme that carries both consequence and continuity across the journal’s pages. There is, in fact, a case that could be made for reading the two issues together, even though they are each their own individual project. Each emerges from separate CounterText roundtables, with the one on Frame/Framing taking place at the Faculty of Letters in the University of Wrocław, 24–25 January 2025 and convened by Paweł Kaczmarski and Marta Koronkiewicz, this number’s guest editors (the prior issue is linked to a roundtable that took place at the University of Naples, Parthenope, in June 2024). Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/147358 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/146988 Title: Antae : A Journal of Creative Writing, Vol. 9(3) Authors: Aquilina, Aaron; Cassar, Emma; Ersezen, Ulaş; Farrugia, Sarah; Grech, Antonio; Hagopian, Alice; Mangion, Katya; Peresso, Ruby; Zammit, Nikolai Abstract: 1. The Zoom of a Hornet: Writers in the Shadow of War by Izabela Morska; 2. Bernabo Visconti to Two Delegates of Abbot Grimoard by Daniel Galef; 3. Meduna to Ezzelin by Daniel Galef; 4. The Voice of Laodamia to Anticlus by Daniel Galef; 5. Antonio's Studio by Alex LeGrys; 6. A Love Letter with an Expiration Date by Alex LeGrys; 7. The Wounded Thigh by Jazlen Chinnici; 8. A Still Life of the Feather of Maat and an Arrhythmic Heart by Jazlen Chinnici; 9. Islanders by Richard Risemberg; 10. Further On by Yuna Kang; 11. Holocene by Yuna Kang; 12. Wonder by DS Maolalai; 13. An Undersea Jellyfish by DS Maolalai; 14. Almost went back to Ibiza by Allan Lake; 15. The Sizzle of Moving Day by Harrison Fisher; 16. Finding New Invective to Inhabit by Harrison Fisher; 17. Showers by Fabiana Elisa Martínez; 18. Mon Ami by Jonathan Chibuike Ukah; 19. The Debate by Mike Ferguson; 20. A Day in the Life by Chris Morey; 21. At the Risk of Causing an Earthquake in the Status Quo by Tinamarie Cox; 22. I'm here (2) by B. Anne Adriaens; 23. in this world (10) by B. Anne Adriaens; 24. We Who Learned the Language of Tides by Khayelihle Benghu; 25. Ant-hill lessons by Jack Love; 26. She wanted to sleep head to foot by Jeff Miller; 27. Disappearing into Blue by Mark Katrinak; 28. In Places Where There Isn't by Mark Katrinak; 29. Aspic by Aistė Budėnaitė; 30. Equinoctial Alignment at Mnajdra: A Choreography of Recurrence by Tanja Cilia; 31. Penthouse or The Joke of All Time by k.d.zwierz; 32. mothers by k.d.zwierz; 33. Lombardy Poplar by Julie Mitchelmore; 34. Waking my 11-year-old at 2 am by Malisa Garlieb; 35. Squash, Not the Vegetable by Young Kim; 36. The things I leave behind by Nolo Segundo; 37. The City With No Name by Aliza Wyman; 38. Father // Son by Rufus Wright; 39. We are given each... by Justin Hollis; 40. Stumbling in after a late night... by Justin Hollis; 41. Barbers & Booze by Rob Leone; 42. I get a deeper lifestyle here by Solape Adetutu Adeyemi; 43. untitled by Gilbert Calleja; 44. Notes on Contributors Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/146988 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z