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Peter J. King
I always find this sort of question hard to answer -- partly because I generally have so many favourites, partly because I don't rank writers as I I'm reading and enjoying them, so that any answer I give is bound to be invented as a result of the question... In this case, I'm ashamed to say that my knowledge of *living* Greek poets is less wide ranging than it should be; that's partly, I'm afraid, because I've been concentrating on poets whose work I'm translating, and that has meant (for practical reasons) those who died seventy or more years ago...
Still, there are some living poets whom I've very much enjoyed and though it would exaggerate my knowledge of the field to call them "favourites" I can mention a couple: Κυριάκος Χαραλαμπίδης, Κική Δημουλά, and Τζένη Μαστοράκη come to mind. All elderly, I'm afraid, which goes to show my lack of knowledge of the current scene. Do you have any recommendations?
Still, there are some living poets whom I've very much enjoyed and though it would exaggerate my knowledge of the field to call them "favourites" I can mention a couple: Κυριάκος Χαραλαμπίδης, Κική Δημουλά, and Τζένη Μαστοράκη come to mind. All elderly, I'm afraid, which goes to show my lack of knowledge of the current scene. Do you have any recommendations?
Peter J. King
Translations from the Greek poets Kavafis and Karyotakis, the Cypriot poet Loizou, and from the German poet Gustav Sack, reversionings of Rabindranath Tagore's "Gitanjali", as well as my own poetry. I have a book of jazz poetry coming out from Albion Beatnik Press in the next year, which might have an accompanying CD, so I'm thinking about that.
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