Voice of Greece radio is once again including in its program the two-minute poetry tributes titled “Poet of the week”, with the aim of disseminating, supporting, and promoting the Greek language and culture.
Each weekly episode is a tribute to a contemporary poet from Greece or the Greek Diaspora.
The poets recite their poems themselves, against original music, composed and played in the studio of the Hellenic Radio by the musicians of the ERT Orchestra, as well as musical pieces by well-loved composers.
Seven poems every week, one Greek poem every day travels through the frequencies of “Voice of Greece” to the ends of the earth, where there are Greek voices.
The Poet of the Week 08-14 July 2024 is Dimitris Kosmopoulos.
Dimitris Kosmopoulos was born in Kontogoni (Papaflessa), Pylia, in Messinia, on the Peloponnese peninsula. He grew up in Kalamata.
He studied in Athens. He is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published nine books of poetry and three books of essays on literature and criticism. His essays, translations and reviews have been published in most literary magazines and newspapers. His poems have been translated into the major European languages and Arabic, and have been included in Greek and foreign anthologies. Anthologies of his poetry have been published in French, Italian, and Albanian. He is director of the literary magazine “Nea Efthyni”.
Since 2001 he has been a member of the Society of Papadiamantis Studies, and since 2004 he has been a member of the Hellenic Society of Authors. In 2005, he was awarded the “Lampros Porfyras” Greek Lyric Poet Prize of the Academy of Athens and in 2013 the C. P. Cavafy Award for his entire body of poetic work. His most recent book of poetry, “Theristron”, (publ. “Kedros” 2018) was awarded the Poetry Prize of the Kostas and Eleni Ourani Foundation of the Academy of Athens for 2018, and the Jean Moréas Prize of the Poetry Bureau of the University of Patras for best poetry collection of 2018. He has represented Greece in international poetry fora and events in Europe and elsewhere. He lives and works in Athens.
Music supervision by Maria Reboutsika
Sound Editing by Eleftheria Papoutsaki
Broadcast: Monday to Friday at 07:00 and 19:00 and on the weekend at 19.00 (Athens time)
