km
This book was inspired by the kilometres covered by Immanuel Mifsud in ten European countries: the Czech Republic, France, Finland, Spain, Poland, Slovakia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia and Austria. The poems range from personal documents to the poet’s reactions to some of the most significant historical events of these different places, such as the Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the Polish scar of the Holocaust, and the diverse experiences of Communist regimes in these countries.
Published by Klabb Kotba Maltin a year after Malta joined the European Union, km, documents the voyage of a writer who sets sail from the periphery to the centre of a continent with a troubled history of empires, blood and iron curtains.
km was published in a bilingual edition with translations into English by Maria Grech Ganado.