Reflections in verse
Riflessi by Patrick SammutA collection of poems in ItalianEdited by Giuseppe Napolitano, Ida Di Ianni and Tobia Paolone Published by Volturna Edizioni, 2021 Patrick Sammut is one of Malta’s busiest and most dedicated literary critics, having to his credit a significant number of highly interesting and worthy books concerning literature in general, both locally and beyond our shores. He is also a poet of great merit, and has for years given his best and participated enthusiastically in various poetry groups, both in Malta and in various other countries, particularly in Italy. He has also founded the much-loved and popular virtual magazine Il-Pont, which is a must for all aficionados of global literature, and which, in my opinion, is also hugely important and definitely a must as a booster for A-level students in a general sense. Sammut has been teaching Italian to high-school students for 27 years, with the most satisfying of results. As I said, he is a prolific and worthy poet, and the poems he writes in Maltese have a charm of their own. Now, he is exposing his brilliant command of both poetry and the Italian language in Riflessi, a collection of very beautiful poems he wrote...