Each weekly episode is a tribute to a contemporary poet from Greece or the Greek Diaspora.
The poets recite their poems themselves, along with an original live music background.
The Poet of the Week 12-18 February 2024 is Chloe Koutsoumpeli.
Chloe Koutsoumpeli was born in Thessaloniki in 1962. She has published ten collections of poems, two novels and two theatrical plays. Her novel with the title “Mr. Klein’s assistant” was in the short list of the Athens Prize of Literature and her collection of poems with the title THEY WHO EAT IN THE SAME TABLE IN ANOTHER LAND was awarded with the National Award of Poetry 2017. Her theatrical play “Orpheus in the bar” was put on stage in Patra’s Agora theater. Her poems and short stories have been published in various literary magazines, have been translated in eight languages and have been included in many Greek and Foreign anthologies. She is Vice president of Association of Thessaloniki’s authors and member of the Cycle of Poets and the Author’s Society. In 2020 a collection of her poems which have antiquity as their reference with the title “Antigone always forgets something when she leaves” was translated in Spanish by Jose Antonio Moreno Jurado and published in Seville
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Music supervision by Maria Reboutsika
Sound Editing by Eleftheria Papoutsaki, Ermioni Katsigianni
Broadcast: Monday to Friday at 07:00 and 19:00 and on the weekend at 19.00 (Athens time)
