Revista prestigjoze "New Humansit", që botohet në Mbretërinë e Bashkuar prej vitit 1885, në Vol 139, Nr.1, 2024, f.59, publikoi poezinë e Arian Lekës "Outline map of Otranto" (Hartë memece për Otranto), si pjesë e rubrikës Culture | Poem.
— Professor Emerita Fiona Sampson MBE FRSL: "Arian Leka is the leading poet in Albania today. An essayist and scholar as well as a prize-winning poet, he is also the Editor-in-Chief of Poeteka. This poem is taken from Outline Map for the Drowned, which memorialises the many drownings off the Adriatic coast of Albania, tragic accidents often involving illegal migration and other informal crossings."
Arian Leka: Outline map of Otranto
In the graveyard by the sea, when you drowned,
We opened graves.
— We planted.
Blue lilies…
We closed the saltworks.
Death should not enter into the meal.
— Speechless.
The howling women…
Backstroke swimming towards the shore the death
Hides the knives under the armpits
— In the marine cemetery
— We waited in vain…
Hartë memece për Otranto
Në varrezën detare, kur u mbytët ju. Ne hapëm varre.
— Mbollëm.
Zambakë blu...
Mbyllëm kriporet.
Vdekja mos hyjë në gjellë.
— Pa fjalë. Vajtoret...
Drejt brigjeve vdekja në shpinë bën not. Fsheh thikat nën sqetulla
— Në varrezën detare
— Pritëm kot...
