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Reading Greece1 day ago
📚📚The 13th Πανθεσσαλικό Φεστιβάλ Ποίησης - Thessalian Poetry Festival opens its gates from 25 to 29 August 2025, with a multi-dimensional programme that includes #poetry readings by more than 70 Greek and international #poets, live music, #book presentations, a visual art exhibition curated by Antigoni Kapsali, and multimedia poetry performances.

This year’s Festival has “Hope” as its central theme, the belief that something good will happen — a prediction we make with greater or lesser certainty, whether based on reason, feelings, intuition, or our circumstances.

Stay tuned and enjoy the festivities!

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13th Thessalian Poetry Festival: Hope (25-29 August 2025)
The 13th Thessalian Poetry Festival opens its gates from 25 to 29 August 2025, with a multi-dimensional programme that includes poetry readings by more than 70 Greek and international poets, live music, book presentations, a visual art exhibition curated by Antigoni Kapsali, and multimedia poetry pe...
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Reading Greece
Reading Greece5 days ago
In Greek poetry, August often emerges as a month of quiet intensity, marked by the lingering heat of summer and the slow turning toward autumn. Poets evoke its golden light, ripe harvests, and the stillness of parched landscapes, capturing both the beauty and melancholy of the season.

FAR AWAY by C.P. Cavafy

I’d like to talk about this memory...
But it’s so faded now ... hardly anything remains –
for it resides so far away, in my youth’s early years.

A skin as if of jasmine made ...
That August – was it an August? – night...
I hardly now recall the eyes; violet, I think, they were...
Ah violet, yes; the violet of sapphire.

[Translated by Kostas Wootis]

🖼Filopoulou Maria, Sea (1997), Mixed media on canvas 160 x 310 cm/ National Gallery
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Reading Greece
Reading Greece1 week ago
📚📚Οn the occasion of the publication of her new book "Head gone wrong" (Εκδόσεις νήσος, 2025), Reading Greece spoke to #writer and journalist Lina Rokou about #narrative as "the most important tool we have to connect with others", the rhythm of literary #language, and #books as "living organisms, which breathe with you, speak inside your head, take you by the hand and together you build a new space".

📷 Aspa Koulira
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Reading Greece: Lina Rokou – “Narrative is one of the most important tools we have to connect with others”
Lina Rokou was born in Athens, but grew up in Corfu. She studied at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University. She works as a journalist. Her novel End of Hunger (Ikaros, 2018) was included in the four novels selected by Pen Greece as part of Pen International’s Kno...
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