THE SECRET AMBITION, selected poems, translated from the Italian by Douglas Reid Skinner & Marco Fazzini

88pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2015

Valerio Magrelli lives in Rome. He is Professor of French Literature at the University of Cassino. He has published six collections of poems and a number or prose works.

Poet Douglas Reid-Skinner was born in South Africa in 1949. In the 1970s and 1980s he lived in London, New York and San Francisco. Back in Cape Town he founded Carrefour Press, edited the literary journals Upstream and New Contrast and founded and edited the South African Literary Review. Currently he lives in London.
Marco Fazzini lives in Vicenza and is a lecturer at the University of Ca'Foscari in Venice.