Italy is mine

... and it owes me a living

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Vera da Pozzo, an Italian expat in Paris.

From the Island of the Sun to the Isle of France.

My pseudonym Vera da Pozzo is a pun alluding to what I care about most : truth and loyalty, depth and insight. In my mother tongue, the syntagma "vera da pozzo" means a puteal, but it could be a female name followed by a family name. Water is indispensable for living, and we need to keep it pure and unpolluted; it is the same for truth.
I write in English because I love this language since my childhood and also because English allows me to have a more detached view on both Italy and France. The title of my personal website and blog is a paraphrasis of the verse "England is mine and it owes me a living", from Morrissey's song "Still Ill", released in The Smiths debut album "The Smiths" on 20th February 1984. As Italy had nothing to offer to young people like me, I decided to throw my arms around Paris, as Oscar Wilde did, and I am still here. Like francophone actor Lino Ventura, I am and I will always be Italian.

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1 day ago2 min read

Bravo for braving it out at Riot Fest

Looking for news about Morrissey's concert at Riot Fest yesterday, I have found a very embarrassing article (a non-compte-rendu) written by someone who knows very little about Morrissey and his music and repeats ad nauseam the usual Moz-bashing topoi, as if the hostile message written on the fence of the Riot Fest was a "proof" that Morrissey should be banned, and implying that, if he is still invited at festivals and allowed to go on stage, it is "just" because he still has

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Jul 262 min read

Stronger than the Storm, despite "the Despair, the Doom, the Drudgery": Morrissey shines in Barcelona

[I will write the whole article when I am back to Italy. What follows is just the incipit.] Like last year, after the beautiful in my beloved Sicily, I feel happy and sad at the same time: happy, because I have attended a great gig and - of course - I am always happy to see Morrissey live; sad, because it was my last concert of the tour, which is not over yet. Four months is a long time... Vera da Pozzo Barcelona, 26th July 2026 Below: screenshots from my (unfortunately incom

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Italy is mine

Vera da Pozzo, an Italian expat in Paris.

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Bravo for braving it out at Riot Fest

Stronger than the Storm, despite "the Despair, the Doom, the Drudgery": Morrissey shines in Barcelona

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