Abigail Ardelle Zammit is a Maltese writer and educator whose third poetry collection, Leaves Borrowed from Human Flesh, is forthcoming with Etruscan Press, Wilkes University, 2025. Her poetry and reviews have appeared in international journals and anthologies including Black Iris, Matter, Tupelo Quarterly, Boulevard, Gutter, Modern Poetry in Translation, Mslexia, Poetry International, The Ofi Press, The SHOp, Iota, Aesthetica, Ink, Sweat and Tears, High Window, O:JA&L, The Ekphrastic Review, and CounterText (forthcoming). Zammit’s poems have been translated and/or anthologized in Grand Tour – Reisen durch die junge Lyrik Europas (Germany: Hanser, 2018), Smokestack Lightning (Middlesbrough: Smokestack, 2021) and The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2022 (Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2023), among others. Her other poetry collections are Voices from the Land of Trees (Middlesbrough: Smokestack, 2007), and Portrait of a Woman with Sea Urchin (London: SPM, 2015), which won second prize in the Sentinel Poetry Competition. Zammit translates Maltese poetry and has co-authored two bilingual pamphlets: Half Spine, Half Wild Flower and A Scatter of Leaves. She has also written a critical poetry guide for high-school students and is currently researching desert landscapes across three continents.
The Writes of Spring – Call for Poems
June 8, 2025
