Michel Breton, with cats Pablito & Glorioula, from a future library on Homer's mountain. Ithaca.
I have chronic hyperacusis. Since October 2020, I live as an acoustic refugee, safe from the noise of civilisation. Safe and sound.
In these podcasts I read to my Nannu, once a refugee in France. He had similar ear trouble, before going deaf. And to our dear listeners, friends whoever you are. Books, odysseys, cats, il Mediterraneo, language & translation, living out of the system, days and nights on a poets' mountain - once an ancient school - above the Ionio.
michelbretonulysse@gmail.com
A special edition, to celebrate the poetry of one of Malta's finest bards. Oliver was liberated from his ailing body on 21st November. So much more than a "national author" - a quite limiting epithet for both author and reader. Poems in Maltese, English, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish. The little I found on the net. I miss Oliver's books a lot. Sleep well, poeta. Your voice is still here. Saħħiet.
17 Nov 2020
Episode 44 - Ibby's minimalist walk
Finally a rainy morning! But the chainsaws haven't stopped. Learning the art of συμπόνια, compassion, for noisy civilisation, for bureaucrat doctors, for those in too much suffering to listen. Reading more from Ibby E Okinyi's chapter on Walking, in his little bible The Hitchhiker's Guide to Not Hitchhiking. "At times, early in the voyage, I took over-exertion and lack of food to the extreme to see where I ended up." You should see the sandy beach across Afáles Bay, in the soft light. Where Telemachus was conceived, as literary legend has it. Ibby, come and visit Homer's mountain when you can. -- Music by Johnny Cash and Damnation of Adam Blessing.
13 Nov 2020
Episode 41 - Introduction to Franco Battiato. With words on compassion
A walk through the many musical & poetic phases of Il Battiato (aka Zio Franco). A Sicilian songwriter and composer, quintessentially Mediterraneo in language, culture, sound, philosophy. From the experimental concept albums of the 70s, to intelligent pop and protest (Bandiera bianca), to the mystical, to rearrangements of classic songs (Plaisir d'amour!), to peripatetic rock and music for opera. At the end, a beautiful Oceano di Silenzio will fall. Stacci bene, caro Franco.
11 Nov 2020
Édition spéciale - Kuraġġ for lockdown
Nunca es largo el camino / que conduce a casa de un amigo. Radju Ottu 88.8 sending music, poetry, courage to friends and loved ones, from Homer's mountain. Pejx is here too, in a playful mood. Venditti, Gibran, Battiato, Rimbaud, Breton (M.), Captain Beefheart, Neruda, Mifsud (I.), Battisti-Mogol. Enjoy. You are stronger than you think. Just ask Odysséas when Euriolo challenged him to throw the discus.
30 Oct 2020
Intermezzo - Out of this world, poèmes de Michel Breton
Playing tavli with Nannu Frank. Odysséas (aka Pablito) plays with little Jasonas across the path. New poems from Homer's mountain. In Migueleño / Twanniż. Pablito wrote a poem too, though it needs a little revising. Music by Djun, Mazzy Star, Nina Simone (a good excuse for going over the hour). Enjoy. P.S. Fucking fridge!
23 Oct 2020
Episode 22 - Il profeta, Kahlil Gibran
An example from the book podcasts I will begin publishing in late December, at the end of my double spiritual quarantine. Discussion and reading of Gibran's Il Profeta, in Italian (tr. GF Brambilla) and a little in Maltese (tr. Victor Fenech). I enjoyed recording this very much. --
La bibliothèque du Nannu Frank is the name of the podcast series. Our future open library (and book rental) on Homer's mountain will be La maktaba di Don Pablo. The two names are perfectly equivalent. Dun Pejx is much more than a traveller cat. (Now sedentary, and almost a month outside without the ċinga.) He loves shelves, and being read to. Especially in French, for some reason.
-- I have always wished to share the joy of literature, outside the system of school and the production line of university. They mould more than they teach. Enjoy the podcast. This morning I recorded one on Mogol and Lucio Battisti, and tomorrow I might continue to read from Ibby Okinyi's The hitchhiker's guide to not hitchhiking, a humble little bible. They will be uploaded in January, with an 80-day delay. I am neither following nor responding to the ever-manipulative news cycle.
-- How I missed long hours of reading in my previous crazy, over-structured life. In a way, in many ways, losing my freedom of movement is a blessing. Barka mis-sema.
9 Oct 2020
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Si ça marche, bienvenu.e.s à la bibliothèque du Nannu Frank (et de notre chat Ulysse, qui adore les étagères). --- In Mediterranean English, mostly, voire michelois, μιχαηλικά, Mikiljan, migueleño.
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