The article addresses the theme of nostos by referring to the journeys of three authors of Italian heritage: Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Mary di Michele, and Gianna Patriarca. Their poetry allows the possibility to revisit their journeys and to consider migration as a source of knowledge, and positive change, despite the many challenges involved in the mutation process, and the difficult hermeneutic of losses, necessary to reach awareness and a new sense of belonging.

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• Cadel, F., (2025), "Italian Heritage and the Experience of Migration and Nostos in Canadian Poetry", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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1. Gianna Patriarca
2. Italian Canadiana
3. journeys
4. ltalo-Canadian poets
5. Mary di Michele
6. migration
7. multiculturalism
8. nostos
9. Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
10. poetry
11. post-racial society
12. translation

Original publication: Cadel, Francesca. "Italian Heritage and the Experience of Migration and Nostos in Canadian Poetry." Italian Canadiana 35: 2021. 215-222. DOI: 10.33137/ic.v35i0.37229. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Italian Canadiana. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Italian Canadiana under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.