CONTENTS
Introduction
Note on Titles
I
TRADITION AND THE INDIVIDUAL TALENT
Poets in Literary Magazines
PANAYOTIS IOANNIDIS
Mosquito
The Poet in the Hallway
DIMITRIS ATHINAKIS
A Semblance of Order
Delirium for the Four Legs of a Love
Weakness
YIANNIS EFTHYMIADES
from 9/11 or Falling Man
from New Division
from O Say Can You See
YANNIS STIGGAS
Simple Math
Breathing Exercises
Armed with Tenderness
My Brother Paul, the Digger of the Seine
Self-Winding
The Labyrinth’s Perfect Acoustics
from The Vagrancy of Blood
YANNIS DOUKAS
The Children of Abel
On the Constellation of Cancer
DOUKAS KAPANTAÏS
Country Houses in Winter
DIMITRA KOTOULA
Head of a Satyr
The Poet
II
MYTH AND MEDICINE
DIY and Small Press Poets
KATERINA ILIOPOULOU
The Fox
Penthesilea
Mister Tau in a Seascape
The Siren
STATHIS ANTONIOU
The Dogs
ANNA GRIVA
Attempt
from Depths
Ways to Avoid Sadness
The War with My Animals
The Ants’ Lesson
Triumphal Ode
PHOEBE GIANNISI
(Penelope – Έχω πάθος για σένα)
(Thetis)
(Lotus Eaters II)
EFTYCHIA PANAYIOTOU
The Great Gardener
The Outside of My Mind
Just Before You Stood Up
Your Justice My Justice
EVA STEFANI
Depths
Back
Family
New Year’s Eve
KRYSTALLI GLYNIADAKIS
National Anthem, 2008, Redux
The Next Hundred Years
III
UNJUST PUNISHMENT
Poets Online
KYOKO KISHIDA
Degenerate Girls Were My Girlfriends
Kleine Nachtmusik
The Violin
The Lotus Eaters
Sirocco or Soldiery
JAZRA KHALEED
Words
Refrain
Somewhere in Athens
Black Lips
Still Life
Death Tonight
Fuck Armageddon
Re: Lotus Eaters
STATHIS BAROUTSOS
My Children
Speed Dating
Txt Message
Birdsong
DANAE SIOZIOU
The Guards
Heaviness
Around the House
Mapping the Geography of the Symptoms of a Footstep
YANNIS MOUNDELAS
Mercury in Retrograde
Truncated Clouds
PAVLINA MARVIN
The Weeds
The Perfect Outcast
THOMAS IOANNOU
Honourable Compromise
IV
STORYTELLING
Poets in Performance and across the Arts
THOMAS TSALAPATIS
The Box
Word Monday
Z. D. AINALIS
Telemachus
September 3rd 1843
STAMATIS POLENAKIS
Poetry Does Not Suffice
Poetry 2048
The Great Enigma
Elegy
ELENA PENGA
Passages
Heads
Fish
Skin
Nightmare Pink
APOSTOLOS THIVAIS
Reality
International
Unavoidable
DIMOSTHENIS PAPAMARKOS
from Ballad
ELENA POLYGENI
To Be Done with the Matter
V
OUTSIDE ATHENS
Bookshops, Cafes, and Poets in the Provinces
YIORGOS ALISANOGLOU
The Painting
GLYKERIA BASDEKI
Let Down the Chain
Mama’s a Poet
When the Nurses Take Their Vengeance
You’ll Come Around
The Beast
GIANNIS PALAVOS
Password
ELSA KORNETI
A Slight Hesitation
As of Today
Dear Friend
ANGELIKI SIGOUROU
Colors
OLGA PAPAKOSTA
Empty Inbox
CHLOE KOUTSOUMBELI
The Yellow Taxi
Penelope III
VASSILIS AMANATIDIS
[supremacy: a riddle]
[mother’s body]
KIRIAKOS SIFILTZOGLOU
from Half Truths
GEORGIA TRIANDAFILLIDOU
Sudden Obsession at a Relative’s House
VI
BORDER ZONES
Poets between Cultures and Languages
DIMITRIS ALLOS
or Her White Utensils
IANA BOUKOVA
The Minimal Garden
Black Haiku
For Miltos Sachtouris
Fractal
THEODOROS CHIOTIS
Zones of Frequency
CHRISTOS ANGELAKOS
‘If you dive inside your head’
YANNIS LIVADAS
from Bastard Elegies
Jazz, I Say
Synchronization
As I Am Boosting Your Confidence
My Bones in the Soup of My Grave
At the Book Stand of La Manne, 90 Claude Bernard Street
MOMA RADIĆ
Noon
Really?
Stammering Fisherman
GAZMEND KAPLLANI
Thus Spoke the Stranger
THODORIS RAKOPOULOS
Epiphany
Torn
STATHIS GOURGOURIS
In the Manner of S.G.
The Bride with the Bullets
Athena’s Dream
Nameless Rain
MEHMET YASHIN
The Bitter Loss
Çürüme
HIVA PANAHI
The Breath of the Olive Tree
Companion
Ash Person
Acknowledgements
Further Reading
Notes on the Poems
Biographies of the Translators
Index of Poems in English
Index of Poems in Greek
Original Publication