Luke Whitington, Italy Unveiled: A Journey in Poetry (forthcoming)

In Italy Unveiled - A Poet’s Journey, celebrated Australian poet Luke Whitington brings us his latest collection of poems - a tribute to Italy and the twenty years of his life he spent there.
Through his indelible longing, expressed in his extraordinary poetry he takes us on a unique and intimate journey through Italy. His poetry is a bridge between cultures.

We discover an Italy full of life and love. Memories indelibly impressed in his being, echo in his poetry. He weaves the ordinary and the superlative of Italy, unveiling a beautiful tapestry.
A love, sometimes central, sometimes in the margins of a verse, appears again and again.
Luke’s poetry has been widely published, including in two volumes of poetry with over two hundred poems with Ginninderra Press. He has presented his poetry in Italy, Ireland, Australia and internationally.

“What Light Can Do captures the intense overlap of places that can exist in one person, in the depths of one person who journeys from edge to centre and seeks to be in both places at once. … It is an answer to the question: where do I belong, and where is the real centre of my identity and my world?” Ivan Head Quadrant Magazine

“Memory for Luke Whitington is his life’s existential continuum. At times he is Proustian in his resurrection of lost time, at other times he brings to mind Cavafy’s search for his Ithaca … His poems are haunted by pasts as they weave in and out of his contexts of fleshed-out figuration contrasted with classical stone statuary or a seagull from Ostia ghosting a dark, empty town square …” Bernard Hardy