""Even So" reveals the extent to which Mark Roper's move from the UK to the Kilkenny countryside in 1980 has liberated his imagination and, by allowing him to report on lived, day-to-day experience, helped him to become an extraordinarily distinguished 'nature poet'.--Carol Rumens.

DOMINGO NOTARO (b. 1939, Calabria, Italy) is a leading Italian painter and sculptor whose work has been exhibited not just all over Italy but also in such far-flung places as Buenos Aires, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Brussels, Dubrovnik, Zagreb and Ankara. He is also a poet of some distinction, and the present volume, E-le-menti delle parole / The mind-elements of words - a bilingual volume with translations by Catherine O'Brien and Kay McCarthy - is his first full-length appearance in English. Praised and encouraged in his painting by Louis Aragon, Pablo Picasso and Leonardo Sciascia among...