Ioana Petrescu: 2 books

Ioana Petrescu is a Romanian-born poet who lives in Adelaide. Her poems have been published in Australia  and Romania, in newspapers, magazines and on the Internet. Her first poetry collection, I Say… (Wakefield Press 1999), received enthusiastic praise: ‘Petrescu is a versatile, cosmopolitan...

‘In Petrescu’s poem, Afternoon at Buon Giorno’s, Poetry with a capital P, elegantly sitting drinking lemon, lime and bitters, remarks that her interest now is in the lyrical stance of the ordinary. To which her interlocutor, Mephistopheles, replies, Bullshit. Should Poetry sell her soul to this...