‘A wandering life’ is a literary travel book written and illustrated by Peter Antonio Rossi
“Join me on a 25-year journey. A journey through nine countries where I lived, worked and experienced life, love, and everything in between! England, Scotland, Botswana, Hungary, Italy, Ukraine, Malaysia, China, Uzbekistan – diverse places, diverse experiences, relive them with me through poetry, essay, short story and anecdote. Discover the aspects of the countries that cannot be discovered through conventional travel guides.”
Book Contents
Chapter One: SCOTLAND
“AYE!” – a Glaswegian dialect rant-lament
Conspiracy Theoristic
Johnny Doyle
Nothing Seemed to Matter
Ol’ Scotia
SRISIMS
The Boy, The Mouse, And the Tenement Close
They Say
Weans
Zoombie
Chapter Two: BOTSWANA & SOUTH AFRICA
Colollaturica
In the Rude Heat of the Day
JHB – GABS
Jobbing Joburg
Mahalapye Musings 1 and 2
Obsession Oiled in Black Tar
Patch Up the Pumpkin That Is Our World
Season into Season
The Waking
Travellers’ Tales
Chapter Three: HUNGARY
Afium
Berezillia Black on Blue
BFO
Drifting into Questions
Easing Out of Sight OR Giving Up the Ghost
Istvan Lubek-Nagy
Mesmeric
Puskas
Sfor Ifor
The Mountain Tree
Chapter Four: ITALY
Crossing the Language Barrier Rubicon
Fellinesquerie
In the Picture
In Vision a ‘PANORAMA’
Inside and Out
L’Anima
Pastures New
‘Po – ‘Ahem!’
The Great Untamed
The ‘Theatre’ at La Repubblica, Near Termini
Chapter Five: UKRAINE
Cricovian Dream
Factotum Principum
Fish Artist
In the Distance
Five Ukrainian Limericks
Orangeage
Shadows into Light
Terminal
The Great Patriotic War Hero
Ukraine
Chapter Six: MALAYSIA
30 Floors High
Friends of Malaysia
General Transition
Gleneagles
Help
MH370
Prisms and Schisms
Sometimes
Sony World Photographer
The name is Goldthorpe, Rees Goldthorpe
Chapter Seven: CHINA
Beijingers
Mr T
Please
Review Two
Shenzhou
Still I Lie
The Principles of Connection
Three Colours
Tibet
Timeline
Chapter 8: UZBEKISTAN
BO NO GO
‘Le Roi’
Limbo
Loss
November Four in Sound and Vision
Pest-birds of Uzbekistan
Scattered
Tashkent Diary: Saturday 11th March
Tashkent
The Man in the Black Leather Raincoat
Chapter 9: ENGLAND
2020
An Ambleside Opus
At the Hub
Oystercatcher Spy
Free Verse by the Estuary
I Was Energised in The Synergy of Cross-Knowledges
Going up ‘The Down’
He Wakes One Morning
March 6th
Masqueradia
Chapter 10: MISCELLANEOUS
Duckography
Govinda Gnath
Rodney Marsh
Anecdotes
Tana Diary
The Call of the Appeaser
The State of Things
The Story of Pickles
Novel Extract
Ucraina Almanac