Voice of Greece bids farewell to the distinguished poet Angeliki Sidira, who passed away on Thursday, 3 July 2025, by rebroadcasting a selection of her poems, read by the poet herself in the studios of Voice of Greece, as part of the project “Poet of the Week.”
Angeliki Sidirá was born in Athens in 1938. In 1963, she married Giorgos Papakostas, and together they had three sons. She worked at the National Bank of Greece and at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She also served as a volunteer for Social Welfare at the Hellenic Red Cross.
Her poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, English, and Turkish, and have appeared in well-known anthologies, newspapers, and literary journals. She was a member of the Hellenic Authors’ Society and a founding member of the Poets’ Circle.
Critiques of her work have been published in newspapers and literary periodicals. Her poetry was frequently presented in Athens, Thessaloniki, and throughout Greece.
In April 2010, she represented Greece at the International Poetry Festival in Istanbul, the European Capital of Culture that year. She also took part in the Voix Vives Festival in Toledo in September 2015, in Sète, France in July 2016, and in Genoa in June 2019.
She published twelve poetry collections. Her most recent one, Silver Alert (Kedros Publications, 2016), received the Greek State Literary Award for Special Thematic Work. She had also translated poems by American poet Emily Dickinson, and contributed to the collective testimonial book A Woman’s Sense alongside five other authors.
Music curation: Maria Rempoutsika
Sound editing: Eleftheria Papoutsaki
Broadcast schedule:
Monday to Friday at 07:00 and 19:00 (Athens time)
Saturday and Sunday at 19:00 (Athens time)
