From the periphery to the centre

Immanuel Mifsud's new collection of travel poems, km, is being published by Klabb Kotba Maltin with a launch at the University of Malta in two weeks time. Not to be missed. From Immanuel's blog:

This book was inspired by the kilometres I travelled through ten European countries: the Czech Republic, France, Finland, Spain, Poland, Slovakia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia and Austria. The poems range from personal documents to my reactions to some of the most significant historical events of these different places, such as the Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution, the disitegration of Yugoslavia, the Polish scar of the Holocaust, and the diverse experiences of Communist regimes in these countries. Published by Klabb Kotba Maltin a year after Malta joined the European Union, km documents my voyage as a writer who sets sail from the periphery to the centre of a continent with a troubled history of empires, blood and iron curtains...