Born into a poor family grows, however, in an environment rich in books. He published the first volume of poems in 1970[1] (Una poltrona comoda, Giuseppe Di Maria editore), characterized, like the others that follow, by the theme of love and nonconformity. Beppe Costa Beppe wrote and published two tour guides,[1] first at local level, Catania, Guida ai monumenti, and the second at regional level, Sicilia, Guida ai monumenti, both with Muglia publisher. Translated two books of the playwright Fernando Arrabal. In 1978 he met the poet Dario Bellezza which will begin with poetry readings and book presentations all around Italy, using everywhere is available: squares, bars, libraries, theaters.
Successes
He reaches fame with the book Romanzo siciliano, that treat the autobiographical story of an intellectual Sicilian in his struggle and his complaint the south and the Mafia.
Beppe Costa collaborated until 1985 with articles on Giornale del Sud and in Siciliani both directed by Giuseppe Fava. He publishes in Giornale di Sicilia interviews to Alberto Moravia, Enzo Jannacci, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Leo Ferré. He also participates to the radio program of poetry by RadioRai[it] named Zenit & Nadir. In 1985 he finally left Sicily. He public other collections of poems and receive the Akesineide prize for Fatto d'amore and Canto d'amore.
In 1989 wins the Alfonso Gatto prize with the collection Impaginato per affetto. The preface is by Giacinto Spagnoletti[it], who, first, recognized the artistic talent of Pier Paolo Pasolini, positively appreciates the poetry of Beppe Costa, in which beautifully expresses the pain of living, the need to love and the difficulty of harmonizing this with the reality of another world. The book will be presented in different school, The book will be presented in different schools in common with the same Spagnoletti and, in Rome, from Giorgio Bassani.
His poems were read by actors like Lina Bernardi[it], Arnoldo Foà, Viviana Piccolo, Sara Pusceddu e Valeria Di Francesco and set to music, among others, by da Giovanni Renzo, Alessandra Celletti, Nicola Alesini, Giuliano Perticara, Mario Pettenati, and Gianluca Attanasio. Fascinated by the musical innovations, Beppe Costa recorded a cd with Giovanni Renzo. This experience led him quickly to make visual poetry with photos and music videos mostly of René Aubry and Alessandra Celletti. He inaugurate, with Beatrice Niccolai, in 2008, the exhibition Malaspinarte.[3]
In 2008 the encounter with the poet and composer Mario Salis contributes to greater synergy to the Italian edition of the Teranova Festival, who was born in France and founded by Mario Salis under the leadership of Fernando Arrabal, has already seen the participation of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Patrice Leconte and of the same Arrabal.
An event of enormous importance in March 2010 for the cycle Beppe Costa meetings, Fernando Arrabal in Rome,[4] guest of spent two days with the Poets From Space, a group of poets from different Italian regions, chosen by Fabio Barcellandi.
Came out in June 2010, for Multimedia Publishing (Casa della Poesia from Baronissi – Salerno), his new collection of poems Anche ora che la luna, with a letter from Adele Cambria and Lia Levi[it]. From 2011 began the partnership with the poet Stefania Battistella creating the new reading/show: di me, di altri, ancora.[5]
Beppe Costa with Leonardo Omar Onida, Jack Hirschman and Paul Polansky at the Civic Theatre during Ottobre in Poesia
Anche ora che la luna
From January 2008, begins the tour of poetry and music Anche ora che la luna.[9] Initially, in Salento with the composer Giovanni Renzo at the piano, after alone and performing throughout Italy in places like the Literary Cafe in Rome and the Civic Theatre in Sassari. This tour[10] will continue up to 2011.
Ho ancora voglia di sognare
In 2009, began a collaboration with the French singer Eva Lopez[fr], creating the show Ho ancora voglia di sognare,[11] interpreting poems in their context and in the encounter with the songs of Leo Ferré, Édith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens.
Di me, di altri, ancora
In 2009, gets under way the new show di me, di altri, ancora, touring around Italy[12] (taken from the eponymous book forthcoming). In 2012 the tour[13] di me, di altri, ancora will restart with the poet Stefania Battistella.
Beppe, il poeta che amava le donne
The director Ricky Farina produces the film Beppe, il poeta che amava le donne (Quixote production, 2009).
Ottobre in Poesia
In 2009 he is the guest of honor at Ottobre in Poesia[14] in Sassari, and in 2010 participates in numerous meetings with students from different schools of Sassari. At the end of the Festival Ottobre in Poesia, at the Civic Theatre in Sassari receives the poetics key of the city.
In 2012 is invited[15] at the 13th, then will be invited to the 14th and 15th, edition of the Nissan Festival which takes place in Maghar, (Israel) founded by the poet Naim Araidi.[16] From 2015 he is president of Terre di Virgilio Prize,[17] from 2016 he is part of Francisco de Aldana Prize jury.[18] He began a collaboration with Era Buçpapaj, of the University of Tirana for several translations from English and Italian. In September 2019 he was invited to the International Poetry Festival in Kosovo, where he met the writer Luan Rama, who, a few days later, wrote an article for two newspapers in Tirana. (Schiptarja.com and Gazeta Schiptare)
Prize
Ragusa, libro siciliano dell'anno Prize, 1984
Akesineide Prize 1987
Alfonso Gatto Prize, 1990
Città di Ascoli Prize, 1992
International poetry prize "Il Delfino d'Argento", Nettuno, 1992
AA. VV. Woher ich nicht zurückkehren werde, Berliner Anthologie, Verlag Vorwerk 8. ISBN978-3-940384-79-9.
Raimondi Valeria; Costa Beppe; Hirschman Jack: Poetre II. Rrjedhë dallge që shtyn-L'onda dentro che sospinge, Gilgamesh Edizioni, 2016. ISBN9788868671341.
No resignación. Antología de Salamanca, a cura di Alfredo Peréz Alencart, Depósito Legal: S. 504-2016 Impreso en Salamanca, en los talleres de Gráficas Lope, 2017
AA. VV. SignorNò, poesie e scritti contro la guerra, a cura di M. Cinque e P. Rushton, Nuova edizione, Associazione Pellicano, 2016. ISBN9788899615154.
AA. VV. LiberAzione poEtica, pref. Jack Hirschman, Pellicano, 2017. ISBN9788899615277.
AA. VV. Poeti da morire, a cura di Marco Cinque e Beppe Costa, Pellicano Sardegna, 2018. ISBN978-88-31918-04-6.
AA. VV. Giornata mondiale della poesia, Roma 2020
AA. VV. D'amori, di delitti, di passioni, a cura di Beppe Costa e Vito Davoli, 2022. ISBN 979-84-20347-91-1.
Rosso, poesie d'amore e di rivolta, in appendice "Lettera d'amore non spedita", Pellicano Associazione Culturale, 2016. ISBN9788899615116.
Per chi fa turni di notte, Pellicano Associazione Culturale, 2017. ISBN9788899615406.
Romanzo siciliano – La trilogia, Pellicano Associazione Culturale, 2017. ISBN9788899615376.
Il poeta che amava le donne (e parlava coi muri), Pellicano Sardegna, 2018. ISBN9788831918053.
Il poeta che amava le donne (e parlava coi muri), Pettirosso editore, 2019. ISBN9788898965243.
Nicola Alesini, Beppe Costa, Metà del tempo, poesia a due voci, Alfa Music EAN. 8032050021188.
Dall'altra parte dell'orizzonte, a cura di Vito Davoli, Pellicano Cult / Amazon KDP 2022. ISBN 979-8370019920.
La via semplice, plaquette da una poesia, con una foto di Dino Ignani e un aforisma critico di Ugo Magnanti, FusibiliaLibri, Anzio, 2023. ISBN 9788898649938
Delitto imperfetto, 50 poesie sulla poesia e sui poeti, a cura di Ugo Magnanti, Di Carlo editore, 2024 / ISBN ISBN 979-1281566736
Notes
1 2 , Casa della Poesia: bibliography of Beppe Costa.
↑ , Denise Valtz Ferreri (Winter, 1986) "Beppe Costa -Romanzo Siciliano-". World Literature Today.
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