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Poet Of The Week

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.

Poet of the Week 01/27/2020
Dimitris Angelis was born in Athens in 1973. He studied theology and holds a doctorate in philosophy. A poet and essayist, he has published seven poetry collections, studies and short stories. He was director of the magazine Nea Efthini (iss. 1-16), currently, the magazine Frear (distinction by the...
Poet of the Week 03/25/2019
Giorgos Veis was born in Athens in 1955. Ambassador ad honorem. He studied law. His poems have been translated into seven European languages, Indonesian and Chinese. He has worked as a literary critic since 1976. Vice President of the Hellenic Authors’ Society 2017-2019. He served in the Diplomatic B...
Poet of the Week 09/07/2020
Maria Koulouri was born in 1975 in Chalkida, and now lives in Athens. She has studied speech therapy, psychotherapy, theater and is currently studying European Civilisation at the Hellenic Open University. Three of her poetry books have been published in Greece by Melani Publications: "Bare Museum",...
Poet of the Week 10/27/2019
Nikos Erinakis (Athens, 1988) holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Universities of London and Oxford, having studied economics [Athens University of Economics and Business], philosophy and comparative literature [Warwick], and philosophy of the social sciences [LSE]. He has occasionally taught Political...
Poet of the Week 04/08/2019
Dimitra Ch. Christodoulou was born in Athens in 1953. She studied Law and Literature. She worked as a teacher in Public Secondary Education until her retirement. She has published thirteen books of poetry, a book of prose texts and a volume of translations of ancient Greek lyric poetry. Her fourteenth...
Poet of the Week 07/27/2019
Lina Stefanou was born in Athens. Since 1980 she has worked as a journalist in: Major newspapers (Vradyni, Acropolis, TA NEA, Ethnos, Proti, Gnomi, Epikairotita, TO VIMA etc.). Well-known magazines (KLIK, Flash, Madame Figaro, METRO, Oxy, DNA, Mirror, Epsilon, Ticket, Status, Symbol). Television (ET2...
Poet of the Week 02/17/2020
Giorgos Markopoulos was born in Messini in 1951 and has been living in Athens since 1965. He studied economics. He has published seven collections of poetry, one of prose, two volumes of his essays on the work of other poets, two monographs (on football in Greek poetry and on the work of Tasos Livaditis),...
Poet of the Week 09/09/2019
Lefteris Xanthopoulos was born in Athens in February 1945. He studied at the Law School of the University of Athens without sitting through the final exams, and cinema at The London Film School in England. He has published fifteen books (poetry, prose, essays, testimony) and directed over forty...
Poet of the Week 02/09/2020
Nikos Katsalidas was born in Ano Lesinitsa, in the area Theologos of Sarandë in south Albania. He is the son of folklorist Grigoris Katsalidas. Today, he lives in Athens. He studied literature in Tirana. A poet, prose writer, translator and essayist with several honors and awards. He is a member ...
Poet of the Week 04/01/2019
Giorgos Chouliaras is a poet, essayist, prose writer and translator. In 2014 he was awarded by the Academy of Athens for his "alphabetical novel" Lexiko Anamniseon and for his entire body of work. His poetry in translation has been published in leading American journals and anthologies - the Harvard...
Poet of the Week 05/20/2019
Giannis Efstathiadis was born in Athens in 1946. He has published ten collections of poems and verse, as well as poems for children. He has also published seven books of short prose and short stories as well as five books of essays, musical texts, articles and chronicles. Under the pseudonym Apikios,...
Poet of the Week 05/06/2019
Giorgos Rouskas was born into this world in Attica, in May 1962. Following exams, he was admitted to the Varvakeio High School and then to the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University. Since his graduation, he has been working as a freelancer. He has held two solo painting...
Poet of the Week 01/20/2020
Giorgos Blanas (1959 - ) is a Greek poet. He studied Library Organisation and Management and has worked as a librarian, publicity officer, translator and editor. He first appeared in literature in 1982, in the pages of the historical magazine Grammata kai Technes. In 1987 he published his first book...
Poet of the Week 11/02/2020
Lena Samara studied at the Chemistry School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and at the Veaki and Traga Drama Schools in Athens. Four collections of her poetry have been published by Gavriilidis Publications: "Anapodo Mnimoniko" (2009), "Enilika Somata" (2011), Oria (2014) and "Epimeno na...
Poet of the Week 11/25/2019
Lena Kallergi was born in Athens and grew up in Nea Artaki, on the island of Euboea. She has written the poetry books "Perissevei ena Ploio" (Gavriilidis, 2016), which was awarded by the "Poets' Circle" and was shortlisted for the Greek State Poetry Awards, and "Kipoi stin Ammo" (Gavriilidis, 2010),...
Poet of the Week 07/15/2019
Giannis Doukas was born in Athens in 1981. He studied Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Digital Humanities at King's College in London. For the past four years he has been living in Galway, Ireland and working on his Ph.D. thesis on intertextuality in Late Antiquity...
Poet of the Week 09/30/2019
Konstantina Korryvanti was born in Athens in 1989. She studied Political Science, History, and International Relations at Panteion University and continued her studies at the University of Essex in England. She attended the two-year poetry workshop of the Takis Sinopoulos Foundation and published...
Poet of the Week 03/09/2020
Krystalli Glyniadaki was born in Athens in 1979. She studied philosophy, philosophy of religion, political theory, and creative writing for many years in England, then went to live in Istanbul and worked in Oslo. She translates literature from Norwegian and English and is a journalist for Norwegian...