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 26 Feb.-03 Mar. 2024 is Depy Nikolopoulpou.
Depy Nikolopoulou is a journalist and member of the Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers. Born in Pyrgos, Ilia, she graduated from the School of Journalism in Athens, with renowned teachers such as the late Spyros Melas. Along with Journalism, she studied at the Drama School, while at the same time she was engaged in painting and poetry. To date she has participated in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. She has published three poetry collections: “Cracks”, “Expression” and “Without Saying Hello” while a 4th collection is expected to be released titled: “What the wind brings”. Her poems have been translated into French and Italian. She has been honored with the First Prize at the Panhellenic Poetry Festival and with other awards and prizes in various literary competitions. She is a member of the Hellenic Literary Society. As a journalist, she has worked in newspapers and magazines covering artistic and cultural reporting with interviews with important personalities of the Arts and Letters of Greece and abroad. She has also worked at ERT’s cultural reportage, before moving to the Voice of Greece in 1975. Since then and for about twenty years, she has written, edited and presented the show “The Radio Post of the Voice of Greece. You ask, we answer.” It was the first radio broadcasting program to communicate with the Hellenism of the Diaspora and Depy Nikolopoulou’s voice reached the whole world.
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)