Edward Caruso

Edward Caruso is an Italian–Australian writer who self-published his first book of poems, Di alture ed altre utopie (Of heights and other utopias), in 2010. The book was written in Italian in Argentina and Peru, and has been reprinted twice. His second book of poems, Blue milonga, written in Chile and Argentina, was published by Hybrid Publications here in Melbourne in 2019. In August of that year he featured on 3CR’s Spoken Word program. Since then he has had a growing number of poems accepted in journals and anthologies, both in Australia and overseas. These include A Voz Limpia, Australian Multilingual Writing Project, Burrow, Communion, Kalliope X, Mediterranean Poetry, ‘La Bottega della Poesia’ (La Repubblica, Italy), Lite Lit One, Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, Meniscus, n-SCRIBE 14, Right Now, StylusLit, TEXT, Unusual Work and Well-Known Corners: Poetry on the Move. In Chile and Italy he has read his poems among local poets, happy to engage them in an intercultural setting. Eddie also works as a self-employed book editor, mostly on educational, academic and legal texts, and as a book indexer. He obtained accreditation as an editor with the Institute of Professional Editors in 2014.