Once I Forget
ISBN-13: 9781997742166
Contributor(s): John P. Portelli
Subjects: Poetry
Publisher: Daraja Press
Publisher Imprint: Daraja Press
Publication Date: 27-11-2025
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£14.99
About the book
ONCE I FORGET is a collection of poems by John P. Portelli, originally written in Maltese and translated by Aaron Aquilina and John Martin. These sections include the title page, a preface by Professor Norbert Bugeja, and portions of the poems themselves, which explore themes of memory, exile, loss, and the poet's childhood village, Had-Dingli. The preface highlights Portelli's struggle with forgetfulness and his focus on the vanishing past, connecting his work to literary figures like Yeats and Walcott. Furthermore, the source provides biographical notes on the author, translators, and cover artist, Carmel Micallef, along with endorsements that praise the poetry's transcendence of the lyric and its powerful exploration of nostalgia and the impossibility of return.