C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) ‘Darius’ Read by Roderick Beaton (King’s College London) Κ.Π.Καβάφη, Ποιήματα, ed. G.P. Savidis, vol. 2 (1919-1933), Athens: Ikaros, 1963, pp. 18-19. The English translation is produced […]
Andreas Embirikos (1901-1975) ‘North Easterly Palm’ Read by Irene Noel-Baker (poet, translator, and psychologist) Ενδοχώρα (1934-1937) του Ανδρέα Εμπειρίκου, Εκδόσεις Αγρα, Athens (1945, 1980). Andreas Embiricos, Domaine Intérieur translated by […]
Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990) ‘The Lady of the Vineyards’ (an excerpt) Read by John Kittmer (Anglo-Hellenic League) Γιάννης Ρίτσος, Η Κυρά των αμπελιών from Ποιήματα Β΄ (Αthens, Κέδρος 1961), p. 98. […]
Kostas Karyotakis (1896-1928) ‘Delphic Festival’ Read by Gonda Van Steen (King’s College London) Κ.Γ. Καρυωτάκης, Ποιήματα και πεζά, ed. G.P. Savvidis, Athens: Estia 1998, p. 108. Kostas Karyotakis: Battered Guitars, […]
Manolis Anagnostakis (1925-2005) ‘The Chess’ Read by George Manginis (Benaki Museum) Μανόλης Αναγνωστάκης, Τα Ποιήματα (1941-1971), επιμέλεια Αιμίλιος Καλιακάτσος, Αθήνα (Νεφέλη) 2000. The English translation is produced by the reader […]
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (1939-2020) ‘Aegina 1’ Read by Peter Mackridge (University of Oxford) Κατερίνα Αγγελάκη-Ρουκ, Επίλογος αέρας (Athens: Kastaniotis, 1990), pp. 22-23. Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, From Purple into Night, translated by Katerina […]
Kostas Karyotakis (1896-1928) ‘To Andreas Kalvos’ Read by Dimitris Tziovas (University of Birmingham) ‘Εις Ανδρέαν Κάλβον’, Κ. Γ. Καρυωτάκης, Ποιήματα και Πεζά, επιμέλεια Γιώργος Σαββίδης, Αθήνα: Ερμής 1978, σ. 99-101. Kostas […]
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) ‘Days of 1908’ Read by Foteini Dimirouli (University of Oxford) Κ.Π. Καβάφης, «Μέρες του 1908» (1921;), Τα Ποιήματα: Δημοσιευμένα και Αδημοσίευτα, Επιμέλεια: Δημήτρης Δημηρούλης, Εκδόσεις Gutenberg, […]
Lorentzos Mavilis (1860-1912) ‘Excelsior!’ Read by David Holton (University of Cambridge) Λορέντζου Μαβίλη, Τα ποιήματα. Φιλολογική επιμέλεια Γεώργιος Γ. Αλισανδράτος. Athens: Ίδρυμα Κώστα και Ελένης Ουράνη, 1990 (p. 88). The […]
The city of Thebes in ancient Greece has too often been ‘forgotten’ – for various reasons. But actually there were two ancient cities of Thebes, not just one: the City […]