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Reading Greece9 hours ago
📚📚Οn the occasion of her latest writing venture "After the fire", the first #poetry book in Greece to include digital augmented-reality pieces, writer, performer and psychotherapist Penny Milia spoke to Reading Greece about the combination of poetry with technology discussing what such hybrid forms bring into the poetic experience, the poetic language as a character itself, and poetry is inherently presence, embodiment, enactment, action.
Reading Greece
Reading Greece: Penny Milia – “Poetry is inherently presence, embodiment, enactment, action”
Penny Milia is a poet, writer, performer and psychotherapist from Athens. Her poetry collection After the Fire is the first poetry book in Greece featuring digital augmented reality works by visual artist Anna Meli (in Greek and English, Kappa Publishing, 2022), as well as her play Spanish Summer (K...
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Reading Greece1 day ago
📚📚Οn the occasion of the publication of his novel "When Shakespeare was lost (1585-1592) published by Εκδόσεις Γκοβόστη, Νew York-based writer, research and activist Dimitris Eleas spoke to Reading Greece about using Shakespeare’s life not simply as a biographical subject but as a way to explore contemporary issues, as well as about literature as a means to comfort, to educate, to provoke and contribute to social change.
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Reading Greece: Dimitris Eleas – “I write to poke, to stir, to light small fires in quiet minds”
Dimitris Eleas studied in London and is a writer, researcher, and political activist based in New York City. His work spans a wide range of texts, articles, essays, and books. In recent years, his writings have explored themes such as the Holocaust, Hellenism, contemporary America, the Left, Greek...
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Reading Greece2 days ago
On the occasion of the publication of her latest book "Persephone in wolf's mouth" by Kichli Publishing, writer Dimitra Louka spoke to Reading Greece about the challenges in re-imagining ancient myths and mythological figures in contemporary settings.

"#Myths and symbols are primal forms from which endless stories can be born; they speak to us in subtle, subterranean ways, linking the individual to the collective fate, the present to its ancestral past. I feel the same is true of memory and identity: when we write “stories,” we are, in truth, trying to articulate who we are, what we carry with us, and what we long to forget. I return to these realms again and again because they offer me a way to better understand myself and the world. As for psychological introspection, it lies at the very heart of literary writing, which must illuminate the contradictions, the shadows, the hidden passions that pulse beneath every human experience".
Reading Greece
Reading Greece: Dimitra Louka on Re-imagining Ancient Myths in Contemporary Settings
Dimitra Louka was born in Preveza. She is a philologist. She lives and works in Athens. She has published the short story collections Knot by Knot (Kichli, 2019), Mouta and Other Stories (Kichli, 2021), and Persephone in the Wolf’s Mouth (Kichli, 2024). For Knot by Knot she was awarded the New Pro...
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