Survival of a nomad
Interview of John P. Portelli by Professor Norbert Bugeja, Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies at the Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta.
John is frequently invited to be interviewed by media around the world on areas of his research, creative writing and poetry and education.
Arts Council Malta - Dar-Riħ Malizzjuż
Writers' Roost - Everyone but Fajza.
Antonella Galea Loffreda, Campus FM - BEJN IL-BINARJI. Horizons, 2022.
The Needle and Knife, 10 Questions with John Portelli
Podcast interview, Antenni Suspettużi
National Book Council of Malta, Episode 20, 2022
‘SURVIVAL OF A NOMAD’ – Interview on NEWSBOOK
Times of Malta, ‘Universities are not the utopias people imagine’ March 2026
European Writers’ Council INVASION OF REALITY – PROSE, POLITICS & POETRY
Arts Council Malta in New York
Poetry: transforming the ordinary into extraordinary
“Writing as a form of activism” Malta Today
“John Portelli, Everyday Encounters” (podcast)
Wiċċ imb Wiċċ Ep 39 John Portelli (video)
Episode 15: John Portelli - Breaking boundaries (video)
Niltaqgħu ma' John Portelli (video)
Niltaqgħu ma' John Portelli: It-Tieni Parti.wmv (video)
Niftakar || John P. Portelli (video)
Niltaqgħu ma' John Portelli (video)
Taħt il-Qoxra - Il-Versi tal-Pandemija ma' Kit Azzopardi u John P. Portelli
Presentation at the fifth EPNoSL Peer Learning Activity (PLA) – Nice, France between the 25-26 September 2014
Book Launch Events
Book Reviews
Malta Today, June 2026: Once I forget: Poems by John P. Portelli
The Independent, June 2025: Unsilenced: Global poets unite for Gaza
Unsilenced, Review Daraja Press
The Independent, February 2026: “Boy from village in Malta spends life as a professor in Canada.”
Asymptote: Antoine Cassar reviews Luggage / Bagage by John P. Portelli
The Times of Malta, July, 2025: Words refusing to be buried: 50 voices against erasure
illium, 2025: Ara ġejja l-poeżija għalik
illium, 2026: Dawk kollha mafja!
The Miramichi Reader, Here Was by John Portelli (September 2023)
Malta Today (September, 2024): Never-ending Exile Soup / Kivilcim Akay
Reviews: ONCE I FORGET/LA DARBA NINSA.