Lena Pappa’s songs have been set to music by the Katsimihas brothers and Yiannis Nikolaou, among others. Pappa notes: “This is something that I consider important because composing music has an educational effect on the general public, through the marriage of two sensibilities, poetry and music”. As fo...
Nikiforos Vrettakos was a Greek poet whose literary career spanned nearly sixty years, along which he published several collections of poetry, prose works, and a long series of articles and literary essays. David Connolly, who has translated several of Vrettakos’ works, writes that his poems are “firmly roo...
Napoleon Lapathiotis is one of the cursed figures of Greek literature, considered an important poet of the neo-symbolist and neo-romantic schools. In his early poems he is influenced by aestheticism and sensualism, while in his last poems he ends up in desperate and melancholic tones, dominated by the...
Karyotakis influenced many of the poets who came after him and created a literary fashion, Karyotacism, which flooded modern Greek poetry. Going against the sentimentality of his era, Karyotakis conveys a sense of the futile. He writes sarcastic poems about the inglorious and the insignificant as a...
Kostas Karyotakis was born in 1896 and died in 1928, committing suicide at the age of just 32. He is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s, with his poetry adding a tragic dimension to the neo-Symbolist and neo-Romantic poetry of his time. Today, we are listrening poetry...
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