01 May 2022
In Wine-Dark Sea: New & Selected Poems & Translations, award-winning poet and translator Scott Edward Anderson brings together a body of over thirty new poems written over the past decade, with older poems that have not appeared in collections before, as well as selections from his earlier works, Fallow Field and 30-Day Poems, the latter previously available only on […]
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28 April 2022
By Len Port António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations and former prime minister of Portugal, seems to have learned much but achieved little during this visit this week to Moscow and Kiev. He spent the hours before his afternoon meeting with the Ukraine prime minister seeing for himself evidence of the atrocities committed by […]
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28 April 2022
Portugal health authorities have reinstated PCR tests and the testing requirement for inbound unvaccinated travelers arriving in Portugal by air or sea. For fully vaccinated, inbound travelers can present proof of vaccination as an alternative to taking a test. Travelers visiting the Azores or Madeira may have to comply with different requirements. Following the SchengenVisaInfo.com. […]
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27 April 2022
By Len Port United Nations Secretary-General and former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres had a frank discussion with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, but they were clearly poles apart on bringing about peace in Ukraine. There was some success when Guterres told Putin the UN wanted to fully mobilise its human and logistical resources to […]
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26 April 2022
From astronauts to scuba divers, an elite of explorers will be back for the Global Exploration Summit (GLEX) 2022 in the Azores. Organized by the Explorers Club of New York and Lisbon based Expanding World, this year’s edition, under the motto “What’s Next?” will take place, on São Miguel, between the 4th and 7th of July […]
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26 April 2022
The only collection of poems to be published by the Portuguese writer Camilo Pessanha during his lifetime, Clepsydra is the crowning achievement of the Portuguese symbolist movement. Meditating on the inexorable flow of time, Pessanha sets the music of his verses against the murmuring water clock that gives the book its title. This new annotated translation by Adam […]
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