Sarah Ekdawi, Poems by Daylight

I've been reading an outstanding collection of poems by Sarah Ekdawi, published by Colenso Books in November 2022.

Copies are available from many sources, here is the W H Smith listing, as an example:

https://www.whsmith.co.uk/.../paper.../9781912788262.html

I wasn't surprised to learn that Sarah has worked as a translator and that she has a keen interest in Sikelianos and Cavafy.

Poems by Daylight will continue to make a deep impression. Recommended!

From the publisher:

Sarah Ekdawi grew up in an Anglo-Egyptian household, inspiring in her a lifelong interest in other languages and cultures, including the dialect and literature of her mother's native Dorset. This first published collection of poetry represents a lengthy engagement, with poetry, as reader, scholar and translator (of Modern Greek). Composed over a twenty-year period, the poems can be read as five 'conversations' - the five sections of the collection - with significant others. Poems by Daylight raises questions about identity, intimacy, rejection, loss and gain. It reflects the author's love of the sea and especially the Dorset coast; her years in Ireland and her walks around the beautiful lake on the campus at MCU Thailand, where she is a visiting teacher. Above all, these poems address the fragility of human love, with all its 'slips and flaws and missed connections'.

Paul Theroux, from The Kingdom by the Sea, A Journey around the Coast of Great Britain

An American perspective, written forty years ago.

 

Hellas in Swedish Literature and Art

 

Hellas i svensk litteratur och konst.

Hellas in Swedish Literature and Art, Karl Asplund, Stockholm 1941

From my library

Some of the excellent drawings and photographs of Greece by Swedish artists before 1941

Maria in Zagori

At the time of our first visit to Zagori

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4rMPzZHiiE

Paxos Memories

 As my granddaughter (Ella) has arrived on Paxos today, I thought I'd remind myself of past visits, and  conclude with photos of her part-Paxiot mother and half-Paxiot grandmother (both photos taken on Paxos).

From my book, 

The Ionian Islands and Epirus, a Cultural History

This Train

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg7_Fj5ZT80

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BlJIxsHWnA