Strange Sunday: Selected Poems, 1952 1971

by Miltos Sachtouris

48 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1984

About the author

Miltos Sachtouris (1919- 2005) was born in Athens and is one of the most important Greek poets of the post-War period.

Sachtouris studied law, but abandoned legal practice early, in order to devote himself to writing.

Sachtouris received the Second National Poetry Award in 1962 for "Ta Stigmata," the First National Poetry Award in 1987, the Order of the Phoenix in 1995, and the Grand State Literature Prize in 2003 for his collected works.

The rejection of a decorative use of poetic language, and the greatest possible condensing as a permanent method for creating style are two elements that accompany Miltos Sachtouris in most of his collections. Things and their uses are described with relative fidelity, poetic action is enhanced thanks to a quick succession of images-episodes, whilst the descriptive part of the narration (space layout, details about the elements that demarcate it) is minimised to the lowest possible degree.