Saturday, 7 January 2012

Thessaloniki: 100 Years of Freedom

2012 marks the centenary of the liberation of Thessaloniki. 100 years as a free city, as part of Greek territory.

I will be discussing some poems and a novel about Thessaloniki at a conference (Between Two Worlds) in Athens later this month.

Here's one of the poems, from the beginning of World War II, "Salonica June 1940", by Bernard Spencer:




Daniel Nash, pen name for W. R. Loader.

3 comments:

  1. Would be so kind as to tell me who the publisher of Nash's book is?

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  2. Would you be so kind as to tell me the publisher of Nash's novel?

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  3. It was published in London in 1955, by Jonathan Cape. It may be hard to find, but you could try Amazon or Abebooks.

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