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Literature & Music
Critical and creative writing by Fr Peter on literature and music
BOOKS
Linji Godda (Malta: Klabb Kotba Maltin,1973)
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Songs of Infant Species, text to music by Charles Camilleri (Malta: 1987)
Ilhna Mkissra: Antologija ta' Poezija Maghzula minn Peter Serracino Inglott (Malta: Bugelli, 1989)
It-Tieni Mewt ta' Lazzru, u Recti Ohra ghaz-Zuntier, ed. Joe Saliba (Malta: Klabb Qari Nisrani, 1994)
Pynchon, Malta and Wittgenstein by Petra Bianchi, Arnold Cassola & Peter Serracino Inglott, intro. by Edward Mendelson (Malta: Malta University Publishers, 1995)
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BOOK CHAPTERS & INTRODUCTIONS
Introduction to Missa Mundi by Charles Camilleri (Sevenoaks: Fairfield, 1975)
Introduction to Limestone: 84 Poems From Malta, ed. Daniel Massa (Malta: Malta University Press, 1978), pp. 1–10
'The Faustus of Malta: An Interface of Fact and Fiction in Pynchon's V.', in Individual and Community in Commonwealth Literature, ed. Daniel Massa (Malta: Malta University Press, 1979), pp.224–237
'The Poetry of Propitiations', in Vetesa Novaque, Concentus et Carmina (Malta: Mid-Med Bank Ltd, 1985), pp. 18–32
'Kumment', in Fil-Parlament ma Jikbrux Fjuri by Oliver Friggieri (Malta: Bugelli, 1986), pp. 7–32
'Kumment', in theatre programme of Fil-Parlament Ma Jikbrux Fjuri (1987)
'Acciacatura, or Sundry Noises from a Bulldozer Clearing a Building Site', introduction to Octaves of Reflection: Stone, Space and Silence by Charles Camilleri & Richard England (London: John Arthur Studios, 1987), pp. 7–13
'Kelmtejn biex iservu minflok introduzzjoni', in Merghat (Malta: PEG, 1987), pp. 7–9
Introduction to Charles Camilleri: Portrait of a Composer, eds E. Sapienza & J. Attard (Malta: Said International Ltd, 1988), pp. 5–8
Mediterranean Music, with Charles Camilleri (Malta: UNESCO–Foundation forInternational Studies, 1988)
'Verità Storika u Verità Poetika: Bejn Pynchon u Braudel', speech given on Victory Day, 8th September 1989 (Malta: Government Printing Press, 1989)
'The Mediterranean Story-telling Sailor: Odysseus and Sinbad', Hyphen 5. no. 6 (Malta: 1988), 289–299
'The Mediterranean Story-Telling Sailor: Odysseus and Sinbad', in Atti della Terza Assemblea Plenaria della Communita delle Universita Mediterranee, ed. G. Dotoli (Bari: Communita delle Universita Mediterranee, 1989), pp. 51–65
'Filosofija u Xbihat f'Dun Karm: Itektek bil-Ghaslug...', talk given at conference Dun Karm, Department of Malta, University of Malta (1990)
'In Praise of Mother Chaos', in The Piano Music of Charles Camilleri, ed. M. Bonello (Malta: Andrew Rupert Publishing, 1990), pp. 59–62
'Introduction', in A Distraught Pilgrim: Poems by Oliver Friggieri and translation of the poems into English from Maltese (Missouri: Universal Intelligence Databank of America, 1991)
'Introduction', in Intervalli: Poeziji 1970–1990 by Joe Friggieri (Malta: 1991)
Introduction to Malta, Malta by John Cremona (Malta: Klabb Kotba Maltin, 1992), pp. vii–xi
'Pynchon and an International Dimension of the Sette Giugno', in Malta: An Case Study in International Cross-Currents: Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on the History of the Central Mediterranean Held at the University of Malta, 13–17 December 1989, ed. Stanley Fiorini and Victor Mallia Milanes (Malta: Malta University Publications, 1991), pp. 215–226
'Fanatically Antifanatic: Brief Notes on the Value Paradoxes in Sciascia's The Council of Egypt', in Systems of Knowledge, Book 2, ed. J. Giordimaina and Louis J. Scerri (Malta: Malta University Publishers, 1996), pp. 106–109
'Magical Realism in Poetry', foreword to Spiral: Gabra ta' Poeziji, by Joe Saliba (Malta: Klabb Kotba Maltin, 2011)
'Dun Karm Poeta Cajtier', in Studji Dunkarmjani, ed. C. Azzopardi (Malta: Klabb Kotba Maltin, 2011), pp. 209–216
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ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
'The Second Siege of Malta in British and American Fiction', The Knight 7, no. 3 (Malta: 1957): 25–33
'The Two Voices of History', Journal of the Faculty of Arts 2, no. 4 (Malta: 1964): 265–281
'Il cinema e il sacro', Theatrica 49 (Milan: 1961): 37–58
'The Structure of the Gilgamesh Epic', Melita Theologica 17 (1965): 1–18
'Maltese Poetry, 1960–1970', Journal of the Faculty of Arts 5, no. 1 (Malta: 1972): 3–24
'The Popular Genres of Mass-Media Fiction, or Pagan Mythology in Modern Dress', Journal of the Faculty of Arts 5, no. 4 (Malta: 1974): 276–304
'L'immagine della famiglia nel cinema', La famiglia in un mondo che cambia: documenti 4, nos 22–23 (1981), pp. 48–57
'L'uomo e il cinema', L'Amico dell'Arte Cristiana 53, no. 2 (Milan: 1982): 26–27
'Il-Vjaggi u l-Mużika fl-"Għar ta' l-Enimmi ta' Achille Mizzi"', Il-Malti, 69, no. 1 (1993), p
p. 4–8
'Il-Meraq taz-Zmien: Harsa Lejn ir-Raba Taqsima ta' 'Bil-Varloppa ta' Louis Briffa', Il-Malti 79, no. 1 (2007): 117–122
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NEWSPAPER REVIEWS
'Dwal fil-Persjani: An Anthology of Maltese Poems' (book review), Times of Malta, 18 March 1972, p. 6
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LIBRETTOS by PSI
Compostella: An Opera in Two Acts, music by Charles Camilleri, ed. Abraham Borg (Malta: University of Malta Press, 1993)
'The Maltese Cross or Schiller's 'Die Malteser' ', music by Charles Camilleri and illustrations by Richard England, in The Maltese Cross: Background to an Opera on the Mystery of Schiller's Die Malteser, ed. Toni Cortis (Malta: Malta University Publishers,1995), pp. 197–240
Programme of 'The Maltese Cross' performance (1995)
'Elisabeth, or to be a Mann', music by Charles Camilleri (2005)
'Is-Soru ta' L-Imdina: Oratorju f'Hames Partijiet', in Adeodata Pisani: A Mystic Nun in Mdina, ed. Petra Caruana Dingli (Malta: St Peter's Monastery, 2018), pp. 171–190
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POETRY by PSI
'Siegha Incerta', in 'Gabra ta' Kitbiet, Lehen il-Malti (1958), p. 14
Ghanja tal-Harifa, in 'Gabra ta' Kitbiet, Lehen il-Malti 2 (1958), pp. 24–25
'Curriculum Vitae', in Interfaces: Essays in Philosophy and Bordering Areas in Honour of Peter Serracino Inglott, eds Joe Friggieri and Salvino Busuttil (Malta: University of Malta, 1997), pp. 303–311
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TRANSLATIONS by PSI
Adrian Grima, It-Trumbettier, with poems translated from Maltese to English by Peter Serracino Inglott (Malta: 1999)
The Essential Achille Mizzi: Maltese Poems Chosen and Translated into English by Peter Serracino Inglott, ed. Toni Cortis (Malta: Grafika Logica, 2009)
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