i stopped longer in front of the images created by [in the order i saw them]: niels stomps, alexandros mistriotis, evangelia kranioti, suzanne lafont, francois rousseau, nan goldin, lia nalbantidou, eleni mouzakiti, agata grzych, penelope koliopoulou, yorgos aggelopoulos, yannis tzortzis, christina calbari & villy attart
[impressive how well the same space that the 2nd athens biennale occupied has been used: it now looks clean, welcoming, adequate]
An unnerving Annunciation by Eleni Theofilaktou -she calls it Save it for later- from the group show, "Gamma Epsilon Delta", now on in 'TinT' Gallery in Thessaloniki.
[a text in greek, about my experience of watching the polish film the manuscript found in saragossa -based on jan potocki's novel- and two junkies in the trolley bus afterwards]
February 2025 _ 9 poems in the Greek original (to read or hear, recorded with my voice) and in various translations now on LyrikLine : https://www.lyrikline.org/en/authors/panayotis-ioannidis
this treefeller
Panayotis Ioannidis was born in 1967 in Athens, where he now lives. He works with words and images.
His poems are published byKastaniotis Editions: To Sosivio [The Lifesaver, 2008], Akalyptos [Uncovered, 2013], Polonia [Rhinoceros, 2016], Rinokeros [Rhinoceros, 2020]. They have been published in anthologies and journals in Croatian, English, German, Polish, Swedish and Turkish translation. Also, together with his translations of poems by Seamus Heaney, Andrew Motion, Thom Gunn, Robert Creeley, David Harsent, Michael Symmons Roberts, a.o., they have been appearing in Greek literary journals since 1995.
He is poetry editor of the monthly "The Books' Journal", on the editorial board of the poetry, theory and visual arts bi-annual journal "Farmako" [Drug], founding poetry editor (2019-2021) at und.Athens, and curator of the monthly poetry readings "Words (can) do it".
