DANIEL SACCHERO
Back in 1966, I was born in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province, one day in January. I grew up with my mother, my grandparents and my brothers in Burzaco, a station on the Roca railway line.
My house had an eclectic library: magical realism, poetry from the Spanish Golden Age, fantastic tales, Argentine and European history, politics and revolution. Next to the library a record player with a collection of rock, pop, tango and Argentine folklore. On Sundays, River Plate matches on the radio with my grandfather close by.
Ever since I can remember I have read fiction and poetry. As a young student in a technical school, I began to write poems and to take black and white photographs. I turned a small room in into a dark room to develop the negatives and print the photos.
I emigrated to Australia, at the age of nineteen, escaping compulsory military service: a lapidary 999 in the lottery that would have sentenced me to the Navy for twenty-four months...
In Australia, great Spanish and Latin American poets continued to accompany me throughout my life, helping me to keep my language and identity alive.
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Photo of Daniel Sacchero by Silvi Glattauer
In 1993, I met Silvi, my soulmate. Wee are inseparable from the first day we were together. We share our life with Rebeca and Jaime, our children. For us traveling is an important part of being alive, a way to learn, enjoy, accept and grow.
In the last five years, stimulated by my participation in the readings of A Clean Voice (A Voz Limpia), images and poems began to group together, to outline a group, to show a direction. With travel as the central motif, Distance Cero talks about places where I feel part of the landscape. Places where others walked leaving their footprints. Places where the continuous march of time feels close.
Distancia Cero, my first book, was published by the independent publisher A Voz Limpia in 2021. My eternal gratitude to everyone who participated in this project.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
2021 – Distancia Cero
Poetry. Published by A Voz Limpia. Melbourne, Australia.
Anthologies
2017 A Voz Limpia Vol. 2 A Voz Limpia. Melbourne, Australia.
2018 A Voz Limpia Vol. 3 A Voz Limpia. Melbourne, Australia.
2019 A Voz Limpia Vol. 4 A Voz Limpia. Melbourne, Australia.
2019 Foliaje. A Voz Limpia y Revarena Ediciones. Melbourne, Australia y CDMX, México.
2020 A Voz Limpia Vol. 5 A Voz Limpia. Melbourne, Australia.
2021 A Voz Limpia Vol. 6 A Voz Limpia. Melbourne, Australia.
2022 A Voz Limpia Vol. 7 Voz Limpia. Melbourne, Australia.
Magazines
1993 Fusiones No. 4 Flinders University, South Australia.
2022 Nature Within and Around - Produced by A Voz Limpia for the Garden State Festival
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Interviews
2021 SBS Radio El Rincon de los Libros te recomienda Distancia Cero
The author
I am part of the Latin American community in Melbourne, Victoria. Like many immigrants, I oscillate between one place and the other; one foot in Australia, the other in Argentina, but my soul in everywhere. I use photography and poetry as a way of expressing my
experience of the world and connection to my landscape