A panorama of our modern poetry & an audio document. Manolis Anagnostakis (1925-2005), one of the leading poets and essayists of the post-war generation, selected works from 22 poets of his contemporary modern poetic production and recorded them to be broadcast by the radio station of Heraklion Crete in 20 shows.

This valuable anthology is published for the first time in book form accompanied by the interview that Manolis Anagnostakis gave to Giorgos Zevelakis, to whom we owe the collection of the material for this anthology and the audio document that accompanies the publication.

The names of the poets included are: Takis Papatsounis, Theodoros Dorras, Anastasios Drivas, Giorgos Themellis, Giorgos Seferis, Andreas Empirikos, Zoi Karella, Georgios Th. Vafopoulos, Dimitris I. Antoniou, Alexandros Baras, Nikos Eggonopoulos, Nikitas Rantos, Giorgos Sarantaris, Zisis Oikonomou, Giannis Ritsos, Nikos Gatsos, Odysseas Elytis, Alexandros Matsas, Nikiforos Vrettakos, Mina Dimakis, Takis Varvitsiotis, Aris Dictaeus.

“The oldest poet and the first to open the series is Takis Papatsounis... We dedicate three shows to Seferis and two each to Ritsos, Elytis, and Eggonopoulos. Poems by Anastasios Drivas, Giorgos Sarantaris, Zisis Oikonomou, Andreas Empirikos, Nikitas Rantos, Theodoros Dorras, Nikiforos Vrettakos, Alexandros Baras, Giorgos Themellis, Nikos Gatsos, Dimitris Antoniou, Alexandros Matsas, Takis Varvitsiotis, Giorgos Vafopoulos, Zoi Karella, and the two poets from Heraklion, Mina Dimakis and Aris Dictaeus, who are also the youngest—but so prematurely lost—of this series, poets of a transitional period we would say, with one foot in the generation of the '30s, which forms the main core, and the other in the immediately younger, the so-called first post-war generation.”

Manolis Anagnostakis