Daniel Ionita Biography
Daniel Ionita - short biography - literary CV
Born in Bucharest - Romania in 1960, Daniel emigrated in 1980 to New Zealand (Auckland) and then to Australia. Living in Sydney, Daniel teaches Organizational Improvement at the Business Practice Unit of the Graduate School of Business - University of Technology Sydney.
Studies: Bachelor of Psychology - Honors, Bachelor of Applied Psychology - Griffith University, Brisbane.
Cultural activities - Australian-Romanian Academy for Culture
Published works:
2012 - 2015 - Testament - Anthology of Modern Romanian Verse, bilingual version (English/Romanian) - Minerva Publishing - 2012 second edition in 2015. With Eva Foster, Associate Professor Daniel Reynaud and Rochelle Bews.
2013 - Hanging Between the Stars - debut volume of own poetry bilingual English/Romanian- Minerva Publishing
2016 - ContraDiction - poetry - bilingual Romanian / English - PIM Publishing 2016 - Bibliotheca Universalis Collection.
2017 - Testament - Anthology of Romanian Verse - American Edition - English only version Australian-Romanian Academy Publishing,2017.
2017 - An Island of Words from Home (Insula Cuvintelor de Acasa) - poetry volume in Romanian - Limes Publishing House.
2018 -The Bessarabia of My Soul - a collection of poems from the Republic of Moldova - Daniel Ionita & Maria Tonu (MediaTon - Toronto - Canada, with the support of the Australian-Romanian Academy for Culture) .
2018 & 2016,2021 - included in the Puncher & Wattmann Australian poetry collections covering both consecrated and emerging contemporary Australian poets - All These Presences (2016) , On first looking (2018) (editors Jean Kent, David Musgrave and Carolyn Rickett) , This Poem, This Gift (2021 - editors, Jean Kent, David Musgrave, Carolyn Rickett, Jen Webb.
2018 - Poetry Prize for 2018 in the Republic of Moldova for 2018 - conferred by the Literature & Art magazine, Chi?inau - Republic of Moldova
2019 - Translation Prize "Antoaneta Ralian" for translating Romanian literature into a foreign language - International Gaudeamus Book Fair - Bucharest, November 2019)
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Like everybody else, Lorelei,
I was portioned a few destinies,
crammed one into the other,
according to some arcane
...
Her fate was hanging over her head like the sword of Damocles
such as it is sworn to each one of us - such as it will come to pass without fail at some stage.
She sat flabbergasted, frightened deer, stunned in front of the headlights of life.
'It is just a passing moment, a fleeting situation', I said, trying to soothe her.
...
I throw away the seconds, the hours, weeks, and years
and scant, the time is smiling with chubby roundish face
while hiding in betrayal those Gethsemane’s fears,
which in my feverish racket of youth I can’t embrace.
...
A mighty gladiator of this life,
I carry through the dark a wilted wreath -
like muddy kisses, hanging in the evening,
sewn by some crazy gods in hell beneath,
...
My words stick to you and I cannot strip them off anymore.
They stick to your body like a calligraphy thousands of years old,
laid down by a Chinese scribe from the emperor's palace,
who did not receive any more news from his sweetheart,
...
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