The Scientific Committee of the PremioStrega Poesia has chosen the twelve books that access the selection of the five among the 144 titles nominated for the second edition of the award.
This is the dozen selected: - Alida Airaghi, Quanto di storia, Marco Saya.
·- Alessandro Anil, Land of returns, PordenoneLegge-SamueleEditore.
- Gian Maria Annovi, Discomparse, Aragno- Daniela Attanasio, Live in the world, Vallecchi Florence.
- Alessandro Baldacci, The God of Nuremberg, Pequod.
- Antonio Bux, Maps without a land, RP libri.
- Roberto Cescon, Nature, Print 2009.
- Stefano Dal Bianco, Paradiso, Garzanti.
- Giovanna Frene, Heredity and Extinction, Donzelli.
- Rosaria Lo Russo, Tande, Vydia Editore.
- Tommaso Ottonieri, Cinema of spells, La Vita Felice.
- Enrico Testa, Nobody's Grass, Einaudi.
The five will be announced at the end of May.
"This second edition of the Strega Poetry Prize also saw enthusiastic participation from that reckless flotilla, always fighting against the waves of survival, which is the publishing of Italian poetry" said Andrea Cortellessa on behalf of the scientific committee composed of Maria Grazia Calandrone, Andrea Cortellessa, Mario Desiati, Elisa Donzelli, Roberto Galaverni, Vivian Lamarque, Valerio Magrelli, Melania G. Mazzucco, StefanoPetrocchi, Laura Pugno, Antonio Riccardi and Gian Mario Villalta" 134 works were reported by the publishers, one each, to which the Scientific Committee of the Prize wanted to add another 10. The selection of the dozen, in the extreme heterogeneity of the proposals, shows us once again the dazzling, but always vital, richness and variety of contemporary Italian poetry" underlined Cortellessa.
A large jury made up of cultural personalities will determine the winning work. The prize will be awarded on Wednesday 9 October, in Rome, at the Temple of Venus and Rome inside the Colosseum archaeological park.
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