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 25 -31 March 2024 is Kleopatra Lymperi.
Eva Modinou was born and lives in Athens. She studied Mathematics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens. He worked as an architect-engineer. He first published poetry in 2001 in the publishing house Erifili of Christos Darras, with the poetry collection: “Stihomythia” (Conversation).
The following collections were published by the same publishing house: The Hollow of Silence, 2003, Where It Ends… First Notebook, 2005, Where It Ends… Second Notebook, 2005.
In 2012, the poetry composition of great length was published by the Publications “Ekdoseis ton Filon”: For Ever – poetry in seven acts. The poetry compositions followed from Gkovostis Publications: The age of the stone, 2017, ASIA MINOR – The circle of hours, 2022. The first critical presentation of her poetry was made by Vangelis Psyrrakis on the ERT Third Program in 2001 (“Stihomythia”). It was a pleasant surprise.
The second (“The hollow of silence”) by Stratos Stasinos, also in the Third Program, who discovered her collection by chance in a bookshop. Other such happy coincidences followed on radio as well as in print media. She publishes poems, essays, short stories and articles in print and online literary magazines. Her poetry has been reviewed in newspapers and magazines. Her poems have been translated into Italian. She was nominated for the 2023 State Poetry Prize. Her website is: www.evamodinou.gr
Music supervision by Maria Reboutsika
Sound Editing by Eleftheria Papoutsaki
