14.7.09

0309 to 0310



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0307 to 0308



[the full slideshow can be found here; the graffitti in greek reads 'nevertheless, i will wait for you']

13.7.09

0304 to 0306



[the full slideshow can be found here]

89 to 92


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]

11.7.09

[roland barthes, 1915-1980]

[a piece in greek, composed of some passages of barthes that drew my attention in the january 2009 issue of le magazine litteraire]

7.7.09

0906



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31.5.09

0905



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6.5.09

21.4.09

poetry place, london



'Are you here for the zen thing?' she asked us outside of the 'Poetry Place'. We could have been.


But it was also 'Poetry Unplugged': each one -including my friend Chris Sakellaridis and 23 others- reading for a maximum of 5'. A healthy mix of voices. And so nice that T., C., D. & D., and -unexpectedly- K., C., and P. were also there. Read "A poet growing up" then "Burning candle" -the two poems preceding the last one in the Lifesaver- then "The orchard"
that opens the book (in English versions by myself and Stefanos Basigkal).


Afterwards, we repaired to the nearest pub - a sweetly summery evening.


[Photograph taken in London, April 2009.]

2.4.09

saturday / spring



[A piece in Greek, weaving together the Saturday afternoon when I saw Let the right one in, with Niki-Rebecca Papageorgiou's astonishing 'prose poem fairy tales', John Felstiner's two books on Paul Celan, and a Greek version of Tadeusz Rozewicz's poem 'Pigtail'. The photo was taken in Cracow in May 2008.]

6.3.09

the orchard / again



The lifesaver
['To sosivio', Kastaniotis editions, 2008; reprinted 2009] hit the water again
:


The orchard


That man was meant for this one

As the sunken statue for the sea

the wind for the dress hung out to dry


Their bodies, earth and water

of a single orchard



But the wind tore the dress apart

– the stone is ravaged by the sea


The orchard though remains


Fruitless – yet every morning

finds its soil damp


The orchard waits




[English version by Panayotis Ioannidis and Stephen Bacigal.
The photograph shows a detail of Monika Zawadzka's print that adorns the cover.]