Diane Pacitti

Diane Pacitti is a winner of the Bronte Society Poetry competition and has been shortlisted for several awards. In 2004 she collaborated with her artist husband Antonio Pacitti to produce Guantanamo, a collection of poems and drawings praised by the Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter.

Since the death of her husband Antonio Pacitti (1924 – 2009), Diane Pacitti has presented his artworks within a variety of locations and narratives, working with creative partners including Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, Cultural Documents (Cerasuolo, Italy), and Bradford Cathedral.

Her first novel, Between Two States, which explores Italo-Scots immigration and the family rifts caused by war, has been translated into Italian by Laura Ferri and published in 2020 by Cosmo Iannone Editore under the title Tra Due Paesi. The poetry collection Dark Angelic Mills, written during her poetry residency at Bradford Cathedral in its centenary year, will be published in September 2020.

Since the coronavirus lockdown, Diane Pacitti has written a sequence of poems based on Italo-Canadian history, a preview of which has appeared online with translations by Anna Foschi in Alla volte di Leucade. In collaboration with an artist and a scientist, she is contributing poems to Daily Bread, a wheat-growing project at St. James’s Piccadilly.

Between Two States/Tra Due Paesi is her first novel.

Antonio Pacitti (1924 – 2003)
Molise Landscape
Monotype
2005
© Diane Pacitti
Gifted to the Community of Cerasuolo by Diane Pacitti on the occasion of the exhibition of works by Antonio Pacitti at the Museo Borgo Rosso, 2015