Finalist to the International Nabokov Prize and Lorenzo Montano Prize, selected for Prize City of Como, and Prize Tirinnanzi. About which they write:
Sonia Caporossi, for the Osservatorio Poetico section of the Versante Ripido blog: "The impression that these verses leave on the reader varies from remoteness to absolute emotional fascination: we are faced with a true speleologist of poetic language (how else to define someone who knows how to articulate the verb "sciaminare" and the botanical notion of "aril" through a clear aptitude for the superfetation of the word?) whom we will follow closely in the near future. [...]";
Gian Luca Guillaume, in the magazine Distruttori di Terre: "His poems are "physical": a massive presence of anatomical parts fills pages and pages of what can very well be defined as body poetry (stomach, feet, fingers, hands, skin, back, hair, lips, tongue) [...] the author's displayed style could entertain or teach something to the most naive. [...]";
Antonella Lovisi, in the literary magazine recognized by ANVUR, Il Segnale: "A work that is apparently short but dense from the point of view of the construction of the meaning that the author wants to communicate. [...] A title that directly suggests that what the reader is about to read is something that moves away from the order of "poetic things" to which we are accustomed [...]" ;
Paolo Andrea Pasqualetti, on the literary blog Radura Poetica: "It is precisely through this alternation between strong concentrations of punctuations and syntactic pauses on the one hand and extended spaces of words chasing each other on the other that the ego makes the extreme and brutal gravitational force with song, of the you to whom it addresses itself and which constantly attracts it to itself [...]"
Ludovica Copino, for the blog L'incendiario: "The scenes, represented without defined contours, meet and mix, to the point of giving us something that is renewed and differentiated with each new reading. The atmospheres, rarefied but at the same time so familiar, they create the right setting around the sea in which one must navigate to discover a personal meaning, unique that changes from one person to another. [...]"
Francesca Eleonora Capizzi, for the blog CarteSensibili: "From womb to tomb fathom/ in the frayed fiber of time... these are the first verses on which the movement of life rests, simply implacable. Birth and death. A continuity in which we find ourselves using to live, to weave, to consume and be consumed. [...]"
Author
Mirko Boncaldo
Mirko Boncaldo, was born in the same town as Emilio Isgrò, is perpetually twenty-five years old, lives in Bologna, organises trips to the future and takes interest in gender and environmental issues. He is the author of Subverses (2025), published in French by Le Lys Bleu, and Senza Titoli. Sovversi (2022), published in Italian by Transeuropa, which was a finalist for the International Nabokov Prize and Lorenzo Montano Prize. He has also completed Senzanome (Nameless), which he is co-translating in English with the poet and translator Ranald Barnicot (1948), and which was a finalist for the International Prize Fondazione Amedeo Modigliani. His verses have been published in anthologies and literary magazines such as International Poetry Review, Italian Poetry Review, Il Segnale, Frequenze Poetiche, Articoli Liberi, CedroMag, and on digital literary magazines and blogs, L’Estroverso, Carte Sensibili, Distruttori di Terre, Radura Poetica, L’Incendiario, Versante Ripido, Recours au poème, Poesia Ultracontemporanea, Neutopia, Zibaldoni e altre meraviglie, L’Equivoco, Hook Literary Magazine, and more. His poems have been translated in French, English, Spanish, and Russian.
