BSA’s podcast series 21 poems into 21, celebrating modern Greek poetry with authors, translators, and academics reading their favourite poems by the likes of Cavafy, Seferis, and others.
Andreas Embirikos (1901-1975) ‘Turbine Turns’ Original Greek recording by Andreas Embirikos, from the LP Ο Εμπειρίκος Διαβάζει Εμπειρίκο (Διόνυσος, 1964). English translation read by Maria Margaronis. Ενδοχώρα (1934-1937) του Ανδρέα […]
Nikos Engonopoulos (1907-1985) ‘Bolivár’ Read by David Connolly (translator) Nikos Engonopoulos, Selected Poems, Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David Connolly, Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, 2016 (bilingual publication).
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) ‘As Far As You Can’ Read by Victoria Hislop (author) C. P. Cavafy, Selected Poems translated by David Connolly (Aiora Press, 2013) pp. 30-31 (bilingual publication).
Michalis Ganas (1944-) ‘Greece, you know…’ Read by Joshua Barley (translator) Michalis Ganas, Ποιήματα 1978-2012, Melani 2013. Michalis Ganas, A Greek Ballad: Selected Poems translated by David Connolly and Joshua […]
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (1939-2020) ‘The Body is the Victory and the Defeat of Dreams’ Read by Patricia Felisa Barbeito (Rhode Island School of Design) Κατερίνα Αγγελάκη-Ρουκ, Μαγδαλήνη το μεγάλο θηλαστικό (Ερμής, […]
Dionysios Solomos (1798-1857) ‘The Shark’ Read by David Ricks (King’s College London) Dionysios Solomos, The Free Besieged and Other Poems, ed. Peter Mackridge (2nd edn, Shoestring Press 2015) (bilingual publication). […]
Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996) ‘Monogram’ (an excerpt) Read by Avi Sharon (translator) Οδυσσέας Ελύτης, Το Μονόγραμμα (Ίκαρος, 1972). ‘The Monogram’ translated by Avi Sharon from the Greek of Odysseus Elytis, in […]
Zoe Karelli (1901-1998) ‘Eurydice’ Read by Liana Giannakopoulou (University of Cambridge) Ζωή Καρέλλη. 1951. Της μοναξιάς και της έπαρσης, στο Τα ποιήματα της Ζωής Καρέλλη. Τομ. Α´ (1940-1955), Αθήνα: Οι […]
George Seferis (1900-1971) ‘The King of Asine’ Read by John Bennet (BSA Director) Seferis, G. (1989). Ποιήματα. Athens: Ikaros, pp. 185-87; Seferis, G. (1940). Ημερολόγιο καταστρώματος Α. Ricks. 1989. The Shade […]
Angelos Sikelianos (1884-1951) ‘Yannis Keats’ Read by A E Stallings (author) Sikelianos, A. ‘Γιαννης Κήτς’, Αγγλοελληνικη ’Επιθεώρηση 2 (1947) 345–350. Sikelianos, A. and A.E. Stallings. “Yannis Keats.” Poetry, vol. 198, […]