BOOK OF THE MONTH: ‘The Slow Horizon That Breathes’ by Dimitra Kotoula
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📚📚BOOK OF THE MONTH: "The Slow Horizon That Breathes", the debut English-language collection by contemporary Greek #poet Dimitra Kotoula, translated by Maria Nazos in close collaboration with the author, and introduced by A.E. Stallings, has just been published by World Poetry Books. ![]()
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In this selection from her first three books, published between 2004 – 2022, Kotoula engages modern Greek struggles, including troubled relationships, the financial crisis, motherhood, and the act of writing. Ιn the words of Karen Van Dyck, “writing in dialogue with the twentieth-century poets of ancient myth (George Seferis and Angelos Sikelianos among them), Dimitra Kotoula brings fresh language and a feminine touch to familiar themes”.
BOOK OF THE MONTH: ‘The Slow Horizon That Breathes’ by Dimitra Kotoula
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The Slow Horizon That Breathes, the debut English-language collection by contemporary Greek poet Dimitra Kotoula, translated by Maria Nazos in close collaboration with the author, and introduced by A....
Award-winning journalist, cinematographer and writer Maria Louka spoke to Reading Greece about #gender and its potential in artistic creation, literature that has a place in what’s at stake in society and the transition from trauma to empowerment![]()
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"The kind of literature that interests and fascinates me is the one that has a place in what’s at stake in society. This comes out of the lives of oppressed individuals and returns to them, it questions class/ethnic/sexual privileges. This type of #literature, yes, I think it acts in an empowering way, it weaves a different reality on its own, where you can find softness, solace and oxygen to fight back against the widespread violence and the prolonged social melancholy".![]()
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Maria Louka is a journalist and screenwriter. She has worked as screenwriter and editor-in-chief for Cosmote History, ERT, Vice, and independent documentary films. Currently she’s making a documen...
📚CAVAFY ARCHIVE OPENS IN ATHENS📚![]()
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In 2019 the digital collection of the #CavafyArchive became freely available to the public. Today, the #onassisfoundation opens a new, permanent space for the Cavafy Archive, on Frynichou Street in Plaka, open to the public and to scholars alike. The Cavafy Archive houses the poet's literary and personal archive, which includes 966 books from his library and a collection of documents and artworks referencing Cavafy.
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The Cavafy Archive, located on Frynichou Street in Plaka, houses the poet's literary and personal archive, which includes 966 books from his library and a collection of documents and artworks referenc...