1 Prologue
2 Introduction
3 Oci di bissa
4 Dropped
5 Imagined terrain: towards a subjective Venetian literature
6 Il ritmo Bellunese
7 At Christmas a Silence Descends / A Natale Scende un Silenzio
8 Creative wandering and the poetic practice of flânerie
9 Creative acts of translation
10 (Self)Translation and the poetry of the in-between
11 Chapter 6 Poetic islands: finding form
12 Today, Tomorrow, Berlin
13 The Boys of the Parish
14 The Gondole of Saint Barnabas
15 The Shape of the gondola: Venice as queer space
16 Attenzione
17 ‘This Strange Dream Upon the Water’: Venice as heterotopia
18 Canova’s Children
19 Canova’s Orphans
20 The art of Venice: writing ekphrastic poetry
21 C. San B.
22 Fiumicino
23 Zuel di Qua, Zuel di Là
24 In-between tourism: postcards from Venice
25 Verdigris / Verderame
26 Conclusion
27 The Light Bringers
Appendix
Biography
Paul Venzo is Associate Professor and lecturer in writing and literature at Deakin University.
