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–).
“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 …
“Agamemnon”: a poem by Kyriakos Charalambides, translated by A.K. Petrides
The poem is included in the collection Desire (Ίμερος, 2012). Υou can read the Greek original here. Apart from the …
“At his daughter’s wedding”: a poem by Kyriakos Charalambides translated by A.K. Petrides
[The poem is included in the collection The Dome (1989), whose overarching theme is the missing persons of the 1974 …
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