A poignant blend of sweet nostalgia and a heady call
for action against tyranny and injustice. An incredibly
compelling collection. Hollay GhaderyHERE WAS pierces the zeitgeist of what it means to
inhabit that razorblade-thin realm of the foreign.        Josie Di Sciascio-AndrewsThis is the poetics of a nomad at sea.        John BaldacchinoPortelli’s voice is an invitation au voyage — one that
is as harrowing as it can be sensuous.        Norbert BugejaPortelli weaves a vision of a Mediterranean world
always in process of becoming, and he opens for us
the fractures of its sublime beauty. Stephanos Stephanides