Daniel IonitaBorn in Bucharest, Romania, Daniel is a poet, literary critic, publisher, and translator. His collections of poetry were published in Australia (Short Bursts of Eternity - Flying Islands, Pentimento - Interactive Publications), Romania (Hanging Betwen The Stars - Minerva Publishing, ContraDiction - PIM Publishing, The Island of Words from Home - Limes Publishing). His poems have been included in several significant anthologies in USA, Canada, Romana, and Australia - for example in Puncher & Wattman's This Poem - This Gift, On First Looking, and All These Presences.In the last ten years Daniel has dedicated much of his time to poetry and literary translation. He produced the volumes Testament - 400 Years of Romanian Poetry, a representative collection of Romanian poetry in English (winner of the translation prize for 2019, in Bucharest). Then there is The Bessarabia of My Soul - representing, also in English, of poets from the Republic of Moldova (Poetry Prize in Moldova - for 2018)The most recent such volume is Return Ticket from Sydney to Bistrita - A Lyrical Carousel between the Antipodes. This unites, again bilingually, two groups of poets creating 17000 kilometers apart: "The Judith Beveridge Poetry Class" from Sydney and "Bistrita Poetry Group Literary Connections" (Conexiuni Literare, Bistrita) from Romania. Daniel is the current president of the Australian-Romanian Academy for Culture, and also manages Australian-Romanian Academy Publishing. Read More Read Less