Andrea Garbin


Andrea Garbin is an Italian poet. He was born in Desenzano del garda, Brescia, Italy.

Career

Garbin began writing short stories and poems at the beginning of the 1990s. Between 2007 and 2008, he participated in the reading and writing meetings of Mantua, whose editors included David Bregola, Sergio Rotino, Giorgio Vast] and Giulio Milani. At the end of the cycle, in 2008, an anthology of short stories For Christmas do not go out, contained his story "A Christmas Package".
Garbin became a friend of Beppe Costa, traveling to Rome on several occasions, for lectures and presentations. He participated at the 2008 Terranova Festival at the French Cultural Institute in Rome. In 2008 he started working at the Coffee Galeter Montichiari, where in a few months he created a lively environment for artistic exchanges that led to the birth of the Movement of the Underdark.
With the creation of poetry dating from the Underdark and Literary Contrasts, the attracted international authors including Elisa Biagini, Aleksandra Gennadievna Petrova, Jack Hirschman, Paul Polansky, Alberto Mori, Dave Lordan, Ferruccio Brugnaro, Antonieta Villamil, Mark Lipman, Agneta Falk, Sandro Sardella, Gianluca Paciucci, Neeli Cherkovski, Naim Araidi, Milo De Angelis, Nenad Glišić, Ivana Maksić, Sarah Menefee and Beppe Costa.
In 2009, he participated in Sconfinatementi, a cultural partnership between the Literary Cafe First Floor Brescia and Studentski Kulturni center of Kragujevac in Serbia, In 2010 he started working with Thauma Editions, Xerxes Cardellini. With Fabio Barcellandi as a curator, for the Lombardy region, created the traveling poetic necklace, an experience that closed in 2014. In 2011, along with other members of the movement from underground he started a campaign in favor of the Colombian poet Angye Gaona that resulted in his first film Birth volatil. In the same year, he went to Ireland, with Luca Artioli and Fabio Barcellandi for a tour of presentations that touched the island's main city, meeting many Irish poets. He went to Sarajevo and encountered the Revolutionary Poets Brigade and 100 Thousand Poets for Change. In 2013 he became a member of the Collage de 'Pataphysique. From 2014, he directs to Gilgamesh Editions, the contemporary poetry series Mosquitoes. He participated in the festival The poem resistant, Palabra en el mundo, Ottobre in Poesia and the International Festival Nopţile de Poezie de la Curtea de Arges.

Publications

Poetry