Alessio Zanelli

Poet

Cremona - Italy
Italy
IT

Author's Bio

Alessio Zanelli is an Italian poet who writes in English and whose work has appeared in over 200 literary journals from 18 countries including, in the USA: AdelaideArtemis, Atlanta ReviewCalifornia Quarterly, The Caribbean Writer, Chiron Review, The Clarion Review, The Comstock Review, Concho River Review, Dappled Things, Eclectica, English JournalGradivaHawai'i Pacific Review, The Heartland Review, The Henniker Review, Impressions, Ink Of Genesis (formerly Torrid Literature Journal), Italian Americana, Italian Poetry ReviewKelp Journal, Last Leaves, Lit Magazine, The Lyric, Main Street Rag, Maryland Literary ReviewNeologism Poetry JournalNorth Dakota Quarterly, Nova (formerly Sanskrit), The OpiatePacific Review, The Penwood ReviewPhilosophy and LiteraturePoetica Magazine, Potomac Review, San Pedro River Review, Santa Clara Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Slant, St. Austin Review, Thimble Literary MagazineTipton Poetry Journal, Voices In Italian AmericanaThe Wallace Stevens Journal, The Worcester Review and World Literature Today, among many others.
His sixth original collection, titled The Invisible, was published in 2024 by Greenwich Exchange (London), whereas a poetry chapbook, titled Amalgam, was published by Cyberwit (India) in 2021.
For more information please visit www.alessiozanelli.it.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The Invisible (Greenwich Exchange, 2024)
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The Secret Of Archery (Greenwich Exchange, 2019)
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Over Misty Plains (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2012)
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Straight Astray (Troubadour, 2005)
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Small Press Verse & Poeticonjectures (Xlibris, 2003)
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Loose Sheets (Minerva Press, 2000)
Chapbook:
Amalgam (Cyberwit.net, 2021)
Prizes won: 

His poem Dreamskimmer was highly commended by former UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at the 2007 Poetry On The Lake Competition & Festival, Orta, Italy.

His third collection Straight Astray (Troubador, UK, 2005) received an honorable mention at the 2008 London Book Festival.

His poem At A Loss was a winner of the Spring 2010 Member's Poems Competition of the Poetry Society (UK), judged by Penelope Shuttle. 

His flash fiction piece The Rag was nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2022 Anthology by Nunum (Canada) and his poem Transition Hendecapoem for the Pushcart Prize 2024 Anthology by Poetica Magazine (USA).
 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Simon Armitage, William Blake, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, Carol Ann Duffy, Louise Glück, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Edgar Allan Poe, Tracy K. Smith, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Derek Walcott, William Carlos Williams.
What I'm reading now: 
Out of the Weather by Julie Mellor, Collected Verse by Paul Valéry, Human Chain by Seamus Heaney

More Information

Identifies as: 
Italian
Fluent in: 
English, Italian
Born in: 
Cremona
Italy
Raised in: 
Cremona
Italy
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Last update: Oct 12, 2024