Katerina Iliopoulou
Katerina Iliopoulou was born in Athens and studied Chemistry at the University of Thessaloniki, and Fine Arts at Guildhall University in London. Her first book of poetry entitled Mister T. (Melani, 2007) won the "prize for new author" of the literary journal Diavazo. Asylumis her second book of poetry (Melani, 2008). She is a member of the arts collective intothepill (www.intothepill.net). In 2007, as a parallel project of the first Athens Biennial, intothepill organised and presented Karaoke Poetry Bar, a multimodal installation with poetry, video and performance. She was the editor of the bilingual (Greek/English) anthology of contemporary Greek poetry Poetry Karaoke which was published as part of the project. She has edited and translated into Greek the poetry of Sylvia Plath (Kedros, 2003) and has also translated poetry by Mina Loy, Ted Hughes, Robert Hass, for the journals Poiisi, Poiitiki and the e-zine poema.gr. She is currently working on an anthology of Ted Hughes’ poetry due to be published in 2010. She is the editor of poetryboxin the e-zine www.happyfew.gr .She is also a member of Greek Poetry Now a poet’s collective which organises regular discussions and readings investigating aspects of contemporary poetry.
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Word Express in Scotland
9th - 15th August
See a new generation of talented poets and translators Raman Mundair,
Ryan van Wynkle, Marko Pogačar,
Found in Translation
"I’ve got this sickly taste in my mouth... "
an extract and video from Sian Melangell Dafydd's
The Third Thing
"Sitting up on the bed, you strain and plunge like a frogman among
wobbegong dorsal fins."
three poems from Radu Vancu