Böcker av Karine Leno Ancellin

This anthology is a five-year retrospective of poetry readings at A POETS 'AGORA, a literary association in Athens, Greece. The poets who have read at the event, or have been part of the residency program share with the readers their poems in relation to the theme of the year. These theme-words capture the zeitgeist of Greece; Muted in 2015, Lull in 2016, Graft in 2017, Risk in 2018 and Verge in 2019. The poems are in Greek and English. The international poetry evenings, and the residency, take place in a neoclassical building at the foothills of the Acropolis, graced with frescoes that illustrate this publication. The poets are gathered along criteria of diversity and originality, as they belong to different currents of the rich Greek poetic spectrum. Together they gift readers with an authentic outline of contemporary voices, opening a path for students and researchers, or poetry lovers around the world, to receive a unique perspective on this artform.

THIS COLLECTION explores the theme of longing in today’s fast-moving global world where sentiments are relegated as vintage. Words that took years, months, weeks, and days to get from one partner to the other now fly through in seconds with technology. How does that alter and morph our perspective on love, our perception of the world around us? The author navigates from ancient emotions to the ‘modern’ feelings probed in her poems. This selection of poems is also a tribute in gratitude to the kindness and openness of the contemporary Greek poets the author is involved with via her Athenian poetry society, A Poets’ Agora.