Seven poems each week—one Greek poem every day—travel across the frequencies of Voice of Greece, reaching the far corners of the world wherever Greek voices are heard. The week from 13 to 19 April 2026 is dedicated to the poet Charalambos Giannakopoulos.
Charalambos Giannakopoulos was born in Athens in 1971. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens and works as a philologist in secondary education. For two years, he contributed to the organisation and operation of School Libraries in Greece. He writes poetry and essays, translates extensively from English, French and Ancient Greek, and regularly publishes articles and essays on literature and reading.
His prose works include Little Ikaria (Elektra Publications, 2005) and the essay collection The Twenty-Four Hours of a Reader (Polis Publications, 2017).
His poems have been featured in the collective volume Free Flight, Free Fall (Oxy Publications, 2011), as well as in his own poetry collections: Letters to a Very Young Poet (Polis Publications, 2012), A Detail No One Notices (Free Thinking Zone Publications, 2013), What the Poet Really Looks At (Polis Publications, 2016), and Death Washes Its Face in the Waters Flowing from Your Body (Polis Publications, 2023). He is currently working on a translation of Odyssey by Homer.
Music curation: Maria Reboutsika
Sound editing: Eleftheria Papoutsaki
Broadcast: Monday to Friday at 07:00 and 21:00, and on weekends at 19:00 (Athens time)
