Michalis Pashiardis, “Nicosia, Evening, 15.7.74″ (transl. A. K. Petrides”
Michalis Pashiardis’ nightmarish poem “Nicosia, Evening, 15.7.74” (The Ways of Poetry II, Nicosia 1976) is one of the most accomplished …
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Modern history of Cyprus (1960-1974): a journey through the eyes of the poets
The lecture guides the listener on a journey through the modern history of Cyprus, specifically the period 1960–1974 and its immediate aftermath. I do not explore events so much as attitudes, discourses and traumas refracted through selections from the work of the foremost poets of the period who wrote in Greek: Kostas Montis (1914–2004), Pantelis Michanikos (1926-1979), Michalis Pashiardis (1941–) and Kyriakos Charalambides (1940–).
It’s the implementation, stupid: a New Year message vis-à-vis Cyprus and the upcoming Geneva talks
The 1960 constitution did not collapse because it malfunctioned; it malfunctioned because it was scorned by both communities just as much. This is where the true peril lies, not in the legal minutiae, but in the implementation, in the commitment, in the sincerity of it all.
“Dialogising Aeschylus in the poetry of Kyriakos Charalambides” (video)
Η παρακάτω ανακοίνωση εκφωνήθηκε στο πλαίσιο του Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου για την πρόσληψη του Αρχαίου Ελληνικού Μύθου στη νεοελληνική ποίηση και …
“Beginning of the indiction”: a poem by Kyriakos Charalambides translated by A.K. Petrides
[The poem is included in the collection Famagusta Reigning City (Αμμόχωστος Βασιλεύουσα, 1982). Υou can read the Greek original (“Αρχή …
“Ardana II”: a poem by Kyriakos Charalambides translated by A.K. Petrides
“Ardana, II,” a prose poem, is included in the collection Meta-History (Μεθιστορία, 1995). It reprises an earlier composition of the …
“Orestes”: a poem by Kyriakos Charalambides, translated by A.K. Petrides
[You can read the Greek original here. For a discussion of the poem (in Modern Greek), see this post. Warm …
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