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  • Southern Italy 1943: Connected writing 2

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    I have collected many eye-witness accounts from local civilians during my research into events that took place in 1943 in the Campania region of Italy. They form the backbone and inspiration of what I do. This piece was based on a chance encounter with a man from Sanza, in the Cilento area of Southern Italy.…

  • Southern Italy 1943: Connected writing 1

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    Writing non-fiction was not really what I had set out to do, but one night … I was sitting in my office in Naples one very stormy evening in the late autumn of 2001, supposedly finishing off my duty rostrum but in reality idly leafing through a book about Operation Avalanche. It was not just…

  • Poems 1

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    I was grateful to re-read some beautiful poems by my friend Bonnie Naradzay who I shall address as “you”. I take heart from remembering that you once held me so gently in your thoughts, albeit not without touches of your usual bumptious humor. Recalling your gangly schoolgirl self is breath-catching. I wonder if I am…