ATHENS IN POEMS

Μια έκδοση με ποιήματα γνωστών Ελλήνων ποιητών και ποιητριών από το τέλος του 19ου αιώνα έως σήμερα, μεταφρασμένα στα αγγλικά. Στην έκδοση υπάρχει ειδικό τμήμα με ιστορικά και άλλα στοιχεία για κάθε σημείο της Αθήνας που αναφέρεται μέσα στα ποιήματα, δημιουργώντας έτσι έναν "χάρτη", χρήσιμο για κάθε επισκέπτη της πόλης. Επιπλέον η έκδοσησυνοδεύεται από βιβλιογραφία και βιογραφικά στοιχεία των ποιητών και ποιητριών. Athens inPoems reveals the glorious palimpsest that is Athens mapping the city one poem at a time from the 1880s to 2010s. Walk through the streetscapes of Athens, reflect on the city’s historical development and see how poetry becomes attentiveto the dynamic instability of the urban space. Watch as the city is built with language and create your own imaginative map of Athens. Wander around Athens of the 1880s, imagine the circular Omonia Square of the 1930s, visit the Shooting Range of Kaisariani during the Nazi Occupation and reach the gate of the Polytechnic School in the 1970s. Look at the capital as a huge fish tank in the 1980s, discover the bastion of Kokkinia, get to love the city’s concrete block of flats and pause for a while to have aglass of ouzo at the Athens Railway Station. Have a quick stop at the Perama district just off Pireaus and, at the start ofn a new century, find a chrysalis beneath Acharnon Avenue and voyage in Athens as in an ocean you can call your own. This is a map of Athens you may call your own. ΤΑ ΠΟΙΗΜΑΤΑ ΠΟΥ ΠΕΡΙΕΧΟΝΤΑΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ Guide of Athens Useful to the Public [1886] by Georgios Souris Fatherlands, III [1895] by Kostes Palamas Athens [1921] by Kostas Karyotakis Circular Symphony [1933] by Nicolas Calas A Word for Summer [1936] by George Seferis Tram and Acropolis [1938] by Nikos Engonopoulos 1938 Athens [1946] by Stratis Tsirkas Christmas 1943 [1945] by Miltos Sachtouris An Incident in Athens [1950] by Dinos Christianopoulos 74a, Kallidromiou St [1956] by Ares Diktaios Athens Night [1959]