tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33314078020934460252024-02-08T03:45:40.647+00:00Corfu Blues and Global ViewsMusic, Literature, the Visual Arts, Landscape, Current Affairs, Dorset, Greece. Global scope.
RECENT BOOKS: WORDS ON THE TABLE (207 Poems), READING THE SIGNS (111 Poems), THIS SPINNING WORLD (43 stories).
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YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrHighway49/videosJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08355849350086979436noreply@blogger.comBlogger9870125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331407802093446025.post-52463819059992463152023-09-04T10:34:00.006+01:002023-09-19T09:15:20.770+01:00REBETIKO READER, SOAS (University of London). See my rebetika poems in chapter 26 (originally Chapter 19)<p> <a href="https://www.geocities.ws/soasrebetikoreader/">https://www.geocities.ws/soasrebetikoreader/</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOKOF6rFtw_yfF2A7FjaC8wa2u766pXINMNDwEe6n3h68xYtfJ1fN830wdYEqBt7zfOAR6j9oWg8i-DvWuU1W4rZluuMogY51Ci7PxXe9ume8Szn2MzJZW7GfF0nriLJwuSMMKBAfGN_hrHLGgsTb2qVu1n9q8f4Hc5r6ZOw5sQCe-mWKjNnLMlP0WC-wB/s2664/SOAS%20READER%20SKETCH.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2124" data-original-width="2664" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOKOF6rFtw_yfF2A7FjaC8wa2u766pXINMNDwEe6n3h68xYtfJ1fN830wdYEqBt7zfOAR6j9oWg8i-DvWuU1W4rZluuMogY51Ci7PxXe9ume8Szn2MzJZW7GfF0nriLJwuSMMKBAfGN_hrHLGgsTb2qVu1n9q8f4Hc5r6ZOw5sQCe-mWKjNnLMlP0WC-wB/s320/SOAS%20READER%20SKETCH.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08355849350086979436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331407802093446025.post-50396778570983526242023-08-15T09:20:00.004+01:002023-08-15T09:28:00.670+01:00Jim Potts, a small selection of my poems on Greece. New translations by Demetris Dallas <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">«Νὰ τὰ
ποῦμε;» <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ΠΑΡΑΜΟΝΗ
ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΩΝ ΤΟΥ 1983<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ΑΓΟΡΑ ΜΟΔΙΑΝΟ,
ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Παραμονὴ Χριστουγέννων, ἡμέρα Σάββατο·<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Παιδιὰ μὲ τρίγωνα,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τὰ παραδοσιακὰ κάλαντα.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">«Νὰ τὰ ποῦμε; νὰ τὰ ποῦμε;».<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Μὲ τὸ βάρος τῆς λατέρνας <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἀπ̉ τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολη<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ὁ ἀνηψιὸς τοῦ πρόσφυγα σκύφτει καὶ παραπατεῖ:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">στὴν πλάτη του στερεωμένο τοῦτο τὸ μουσειακὸ εἶδος, σὰν
τὸν σταυρό.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Σέρνεται ἀπὸ ταβέρνα σὲ ταβέρνα: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">«Νὰ τὰ ποῦμε; νὰ τὰ ποῦμε;».<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Δὲν εἶναι δουλειά του ἡ μανιβέλλα,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τὸ τραγούδι πάνω στὸν σκοπὸ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ποὺ πιάνει ὁ θειὸς ἀπ̉ τὸ μηχάνημα:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">χαϊδεύει καὶ κρούει μὲ δακτυλισμοὺς τὸ ντέφι,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">γλιστρᾶ τὴν κόψη τῆς παλάμης στὴ μεμβράνη νὰ σκούξει, νὰ
στενάξει,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">πιάνει τὰ τσιφτετέλια μπροστὰ στὰ χασαπάδικα,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">μέσα στὰ καφενεῖα, στὰ οὐζερί· <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ὁ γέρο-πρόσφυγας, χρόνια πολλὰ ἀπόμαχος,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ὅπως ὁ χασάπης ποὺ στήνει αὐτί, ὅπως οἱ ταβλαδόροι,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ζεῖ ἀκόμη στὴν Πόλη, πορεύεται στοὺς δρόμους της.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Παύει μόνον ν̉ ἀτενίζει ἀπόμακρος, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">σταματᾶ τὸ χέρι ποὺ κινεῖ τὴ μανιβέλλα, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ὅταν ρόμηδες νεαροὶ ἀπ̉ τὴ Θράκη, ὀργανωμένοι σὲ ὁμάδες <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">— κατεργαραῖοι ὀργανοπαῖχτες, γρηγορότεροι στὰ πόδια,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">πάντα ἕτοιμοι ν̉ ἁρπάξουνε τὴν μπάζα — <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τὸν προλαβαίνουν, τρυπώνουνε στὰ οὐζερὶ μὲ τοὺς πολλοὺς
πελάτες<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">φυσώντας κάτι στριγγοὺς ζουρνᾶδες, βαρώντας νταραμποῦκες,
γελώντας<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">καθὼς τὸν προσπερνᾶνε στὰ στενά,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τρέχοντας πρὸς τὰ τραπέζια μὲ περισσευούμενα κέρματα.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ἀλλ̉ οὔτε ψυχὴν θερμαίνουν οὔτε κλέβουν καμμιὰν
παράσταση.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ἂν καἰ τ̉ ἀνοικονόμητο ὀργανέττο δἐν χωρεῖ στἀ μαγαζιά,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">οἱ Ἕλληνες θαμῶνες σκιρτοῦν ὅτι ὑπάρχει ἀκόμη, ὅτι ζεῖ,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τώρα πάλι στολισμένο ὅπως τότε:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">λατέρνα μὲ Πολίτικη σφραγίδα.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Κι̉ ἂν εἶναι ἀνοικονόμητη, δὲν τῆς λείπει ἡ μελωδία· <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">οἱ παραδοσιακοὶ σκοποὶ ἔχουν ἐναρμονισθεῖ:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Βυζαντινὰ κλειδιὰ, ρωμαϊκὸς κύλινδρος.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Οἱ ζουρνατζῆδες κάνουνε μεγάλο σαματᾶ·<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">παλιάτσοι μὲ ροῦχα πολύχρωμα καὶ ὀξύτονα πνευστὰ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ξεχωρίζουν μέσα στὸν ἀχὸ ποὺ προξενοῦν οἱ κράχτες<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">κι᾿ οἱ μαγαζάτορες τοῦ παζαριοῦ μὲ χριστουγεννιάτικες
κραυγές:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ὅμως δὲν μποροῦν νὰ βγάλουν ὅλες τὶς νότες<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τοῦ «Καλὴν ἡμέραν ἄρχοντες». <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Δὲν ἔχουν βαδίσει τοῦτοι σ̉ ἐκείνου τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τὸν
Κρανίου Τόπο,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τὸν Γολγοθᾶ τῆς Μεγάλης Ἰδέας.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ΜΝΗΜΗ ΤΗΣ
ΜΙΚΡΑΣΙΑΣ: ΑΥΤΟΣΧΕΔΙΑΣΜΟΣ ΣΕ ΕΛΑΣΣΟΝ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Μὴν τ᾿ ἀφήνεις ἀπ̉ τὰ χέρια τὸ παλιὸ μπουζούκι,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Τσιτσάνη μάστορα.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Γύρνα ὅλους τοὺς δρόμους,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τράβα κι̉ ἄλλο τὸ ταξίμι,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">σκόρπισε τὴ συννεφιὰ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ποὺ σκοτίζει κάθε ὄνειρο.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Πᾶρε με πάλι στὴν Ἀνατολή,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">καθὼς ὁλοένα στρέφομαι δυτικότερα.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Βάρυνε τὸν ρυθμὸ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ν̉ ἀλαφρώσεις τὴν ψυχή μου.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">«Εἴμαστε ὅλοι πρόσφυγες»:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ἔτσι κραυγάζουν τ̉ ἀσημένια τέλια σου.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EL;">(Ὁ Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης ἀπεβίωσε τὴν 18ην Ἰανουαρίου τοῦ
1984 στὸ Νοσοκομεῖο Μπρόμπτον τοῦ Λονδίνου)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ΖΑΓΟΡΙ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ὁ κλαριντζῆς Νικόλα-Νῖνος<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἔπαιζε τὰ ζαγορίσια<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ὅπως κανένας ἄλλος,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">μὲ τὸν Μανούση, τὸν Μῆτσο, τὸν Μπεκάρη,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">νταϊρέ, βιολί, λαοῦτο.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ἔρχονταν κόσμος ἀπὸ μακριά,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">διάβαιναν ποτάμια καὶ φαράγγια, γεφύρια καὶ βουνὰ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">μὲ τὸ μουλάρι, μὲ τὸν γάϊδαρο· σκαρφάλωναν τὰ
καλντιρίμια.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Τὰ χωριὰ στὸ πανηγύρι<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἄνοιγαν σπίτια καὶ καρδιές.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Τὰ χρόνια χωρὶς τὸ ἠλεκτρικό,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">χωρὶς ἐνισχυτές, μικρόφωνα,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">χωρὶς δρόμους, λεωφορεῖα, αὐτοκίνητα,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">στὰ ψηλὰ χωριὰ τοῦ Ζαγοριοῦ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">παρέες ἀπ᾿ τὸ Μονοδέντρι καὶ τὸ Δίλοφο,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἀπὸ τοὺς Ἀσπραγγέλους, τὸ Τσεπέλοβο<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">χόρευαν ὣς τὴ νύχτα τὰ ταξίμια,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">πολὺ προτοῦ νὰ τὰ ἠχογραφήσουν.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Μὲ τὶς εὐχαριστίες μου πρὸς τὸν Ἀλέξιο Βασδέκη, συνταξιοῦχο τυροκόμο ἐτῶν
79, ἀπὸ τὴ Βίτσα καὶ τὴν προνασερικὴ Αἴγυπτο.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ΑΧΕΙΡΟΠΟίΗΤΑ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Τοῦ ἁγιογράφου<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἡ προσευχὴ ἐποίει τὴν εἰκόνα·<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ὁ χρωστήρας τοῦ καλλιτέχνη ἀθῶος τῆς χειρός.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ἀκήρατα χρώματα τῶν μοναστικῶν κελλιῶν<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">διαβασμένα σ᾿ ἐκκλησιὰ μὲ τὴ ματιὰ τῆς Παναγίας:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Λευκό: Ἀληθὴς Φύσις<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Χρυσό: Λαμπρότης<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ἐρυθρό: Θεῖον Αἷμα.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Οὐράνια ἀλχημεία τέχνης θαυματουργοῦ —<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἔργον ανθρώπου, χεὶρ ταπεινοῦ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ΤΡΙΑ ΠΑΞΙΝΑ
ΠΟΙΗΜΑΤΑ ΤΗΣ ΝΙΝΑΣ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EL;">α’ <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ΑΠ̉ ΤΟΝ ΓΚΡΕΜΝΟ ΤΗΣ ΟΣΤΡΙΑΣ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EL;">(ΑΠΟΨΗ ΤΟΥ ΝΕΟΥ ΔΡΟΜΟΥ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟ ΑΥΛΑΚΙ)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ἄνοιξαν δρόμο ἐδῶ,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">κάτω απ̉ τὸ καρτέρι μου: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">μαχαίρι στὴν καρδιά.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EL;">β’ <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ΠΑΞΙΝΟ ΧΑΪΚΟΥ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Μ̉ ἑξήντα τέσσαρες ἐκκλησιὲς<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">γιατί νὰ φοβᾶσαι<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ὅτι ὅλα ἔχουν χαθεῖ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EL;">γ’ <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ΑΓΙΟΣ ΧΑΡΑΛΑΜΠΟΣ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ἀνεμόμυλοι,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">εἰκονοστάσια,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">καμπαναριά,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">στέρνες.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ὁ Ἅγιος Χαράλαμπος <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ὅλα τὰ ἔσωσε.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ἀπέτρεψε τὴν πανώλη,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἔλυσε τὴν πολιορκία.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Τὴν βεβήλωση <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">δὲν ἠδυνήθη νὰ ἐμποδίσει.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ΘΡΑΥΣΜΑΤΑ
ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΜΕΤΑΛΛΑΞΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΑΞΩΝ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">[ΟΙ ΠΑΞΟΙ
ΠΟΥ ΑΛΛΑΖΟΥΝ: ΘΡΑΥΣΜΑΤΑ]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">α’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ἡ εγκατελειμμένη μηχανή,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">εἰσαχθεῖσα ἐκ τῆς Ἀγγλίας, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">κατασκευὴ τῆς ἐταιρείας </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Petters</span><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"> ἐν Ἰάουβιλ,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τότε κινοῦσε τὸ λιοτρίβι τοῦ χωριοῦ,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἔστρεφε ἀγόγγυστα <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τὴν ρόδα<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">στὰ Μανεσάτικα.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Τώρα ὁ Σταμάτης ψάχνει νὰ τὴν πουλήσει,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τὴν πολύτιμη, σκουριασμένη ἀντίκα του,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">«ἀπ̉ τὸν καιρὸ τοῦ Καποδίστρια».<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">β’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Δὲν ἔχει ἄλλες <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ξώβεργες[ψάρεμα στόν ἀέρα]</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">γιὰ χελιδόνια,πετροχελίδονα, ἀνθρώπινες ψυχές.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Κάμανε μπὰρ στὸν Ἐρημίτη,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">πηγαίνουν διάφοροι νὰ κοιτάξουνε τὸ ἡλιοβασίλεμα —<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">σύνορο μὲ τοὺς Ἁγίους Ἀποστόλους.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Οἱ πεθαμένοι πλέον δὲν ἀναπαύονται ἐν εἰρήνῃ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Σ ε ί ε τ α ι<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>τ
ὸ<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ε ἰ κ ο ν ο σ τ ά σ ι.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">γ’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Τοὺς Παξινοὺς τοὺς ἔπαιρναν<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">οἱ
πειρατὲς γιὰ σκλάβους.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Τώρα<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ὑπογράφουν
τὰ συμβόλαια <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τῆς
δουλείας των<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἐκουσίως.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EL;">(Στὰ 1663 ὁ Ἀναστάσιος Μπογδάνος ἀπήχθη ἀπὸ πειρατὲς γιἀ
νὰ πωληθεῖ ὡς σκλάβος)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">δ’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Σήμερα
κανεὶς δὲν καβαλλᾶ μουλάρι.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Δὲν
ἔχεις τί νὰ δέσεις<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">στοὺς
κρίκους.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EL;">(Λίθινοι κρίκοι σ᾿ ἐγκαταλελειμμένο ἐνετικὀ οἴκημα:
Βασιλάτικα)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ε’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ὅταν
οἱ συγγενεῖς ἐρίζουν <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">γιὰ
τὰ παιδιὰ καὶ γιὰ τὰ δέντρα,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἡ
πικρία κρατεῖ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">γενεὲς
γενεῶν:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ἡ
ἔριδα εἶναι ἰσχυρότερη <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἀπ̉
τὴ στέγη.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Κανεὶς
δὲν ὑποχωρεῖ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Πρῶτοι
ὑποχωροῦν οἱ τοῖχοι.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ΝΟΜΑΣ ΤΗΣ
ΒΙΤΣΑΣ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Εἶμαι νέο εἶδος νομάδος<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">χωρὶς τὰ πρόβατα: ἀνατρέπω<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τὸ μεταναστευτικὸ ἔθος.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Τέσσερις μῆνες στὰ βουνά,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">πέντε στὴν παραλία,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">τοὺς λοιποὺς στὶς πόλεις.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Τὴ μισὴ χρονιὰ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἐδῶ ζοῦσαν καὶ πέθαιναν οἱ νομάδες·<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἀνάσταιναν τὰ ζωντανὰ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">κι ὕφαιναν τὸ μαλλί τους<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">σχεδόν τριάντα αἰῶνες.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Τρεῖς χιλιάδες χρόνια, τόσο μικρὴ ἡ διαφορά.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Ἔζησα τὴ μισὴ ζωή μου <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">σὰν ἕνα εἶδος πλάνητος,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Σαρακατσάνος <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἢ Ζαγορίσιος,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ἄνθρωπος ἀνησύχαστος,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">αὐτοεξόριστος, ξενιτεμένος.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">ΥΙΟΣ ΤΗΣ
ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EL;">«Ποιὸς μπορεῖ νὰ πεῖ: “Ἔζησα ὀκτὼ τελειότατες ἡμέρες”;»<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Αλμπὲρ Καμύ, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Σημειωματάρια</i>, β’
τόμος (1942-51)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Δ έ κ α<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ὑπέροχες
ἡμέρες εὐτυχεῖς.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Εἶναι ἡ γῆ ἡ Ἑλληνίς!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-ansi-language: EL;">Πῶς νὰ τὸ καταλάβει ὁ Καμύ(ς);<o:p></o:p></span></p>Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08355849350086979436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331407802093446025.post-3066798915626002862023-08-13T22:23:00.002+01:002023-08-13T22:23:50.573+01:00Interview with Jim Potts in Greek, LIFO, 13 August 2023 <p><a href="https://www.lifo.gr/culture/vivlio/jim-potts-enas-kerkyraio-ipeirotis-ellinas-sto-pneyma-me-katagogi-apo-ntorset">https://www.lifo.gr/culture/vivlio/jim-potts-enas-kerkyraio-ipeirotis-ellinas-sto-pneyma-me-katagogi-apo-ntorset</a></p><p><br /></p>Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08355849350086979436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331407802093446025.post-27623197225095047072023-05-24T14:00:00.001+01:002023-05-24T14:00:16.584+01:00AND MY MOTHER’S BITTER TEARS by DEMETRIUS TOTERAS <p>This book is dynamite!</p><p>Colenso Books 68 PALATINE ROAD LONDON N16 8ST U.K. </p><p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>From the flyer:</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is no doubt that this is, to a considerable extent, an
autobiographical novel. It is also clear that parts of it are fictional, but it
is not possible to define with any clarity the boundary between autobiography
and fiction. The author did serve in the US Army in the Korean War as an
underage soldier, and the novel begins with the narrator’s return from Korea,
suffering from what we would now call post-traumatic stress disorder. Finding
himself unable to face his family again, he is taken up by a young woman who
looks after him. This narrative breaks off to be resumed only in the final
chapter of the book, and there follow several chapters in which his early life
in San Francisco's Greektown in the 1940s is recounted. Conflicting demands —
of their families to be Greek and of their school to become Americans — drive
him and his best friend to obtain fake birth certificates, enabling them to
enlist, in 1949, at the age of fourteen, in the US infantry. Between basic
training and embarkation for the Far East they take a bizarre trip to Mexico,
where they become involved with a rich American couple who need to involve
others in their sex-life. The two teenage soldiers are sent to the Mariana
Islands where they are occupied in dismantling a World-War-Two ammunition dump.
After an explosion which kills some of their colleagues, they are granted
leave, and go to Japan. Through a series of mishaps there, they end up being
sent to Korea with the first scratch-force of US troops, following the news
that the North Koreans had crossed the 38th Parallel. They are involved in the
first US battles of the Korean War, battles in which the US army was repeatedly
defeated with immense loss of life. These battles are described in graphic and
horrific detail, bringing us face to face with the insanity and the horror of
war, and with the nature of fear. The book, though, is not without humour, and
much of the humour has to do with sex. In this the narrator and his buddy are
opposites: the narrator a romantic innocent, his buddy precocious and sex-mad.
Although, the narrative of the weeks after his return alone from Korea is
resumed in the concluding chapter, there is no conclusion, for we are left with
a final moment of dramatic suspense, unsure exactly what it is that has just
happened, and with no clue as to what the narrator’s future will be.<o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08355849350086979436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331407802093446025.post-4038735084505250622023-04-05T07:36:00.001+01:002023-04-05T07:55:29.734+01:00Joy Hendry, on the launch of Willa Muir's The Usurpers, March 31st 2023,The University of St Andrews<p>We were so sorry that Joy Hendry couldn't make it to St Andrews for the launch of The Usurpers. This is the text she kindly sent to be read at the event. </p><p><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">‘Peerie Willa Muir’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">I am
deeply disappointed not to be able to be with you this afternoon, to launch
this previously unpublished novel, <i>The Usurpers</i> by Willa Muir. It is
wonderful to see the contribution she made to the richnesses of Scottish
literature at last being recognised.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Back
in 1980, when the world of Scottish literature especially, but in fact all of
the arts, was largely a male domain. By then I was into my stride editing <i>Chapman</i>
and gaining some confidence, and I began, starting with myself and the
magazine, to review that situation. I had to recognise, rather painfully, that
in my own magazine, and even in my own head, I was perpetuating that male
domination. The result was the production of <i>Woven by Women</i>, No 27-8,
long out of print, the first publication <i>ever</i> to look at the
contribution of women to the arts in Scotland, and attribute real worth to it.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">The
issue caused a storm, but, quite soon after, others began to realise this
matter needed urgent attention. In 1980, it was still possible for a leading
poet and academic of the day to say to me, without flinching: “Scottish women
poets: you mean there <i>are any</i>?”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">My
first commission for that issue was to ask Marion Lochhead, then in her 80s, to
write ‘A Feminine Quartet’, in which she drew attention to Violet Jacob, Marion
Angus, Nan Shepherd and Willa Muir. She was delighted to do so, and thought it
long past time, which of course it was.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">All of
these women, perhaps Willa particularly, are tremendously important as role
models for women attempting the pen today, and what they have to say to us all,
gender irrespective, about Scotland and the world as they understood it is
enormously valuable.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">In
1980, the whole world of Scottish culture was itself neglected, and the entire
work of the magazine <i>Chapman</i> was geared towards trying to correct these
imbalances. Thankfully, the world we find ourselves in now, is much more
enlightened, as is clear in developments like the publication of <i>The
Usurpers </i>by Colenso Books.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">In
reflecting on Willa, and all gifted women like her, what might we have had from
her had she lived today, in an environment in which woman are encouraged to
expect and hope for so much more from themselves.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="text-align: right;">Joy Hendry</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="text-align: right;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6MDbpokK7sdGpGWnlIIgn7oczbb6h7eud76BkZXiiLZsbU4NebAcddVakwX5gl6ZDDQgwYgcFX5LXTXBPyxDLlmbpA9UnuNNmRngKszNAImm63mn3SPeUjHT8l2LcxjzL3nuA2IwE-7q0naUaTGvsek4Uf5QPpeHL_RUocvgT1kcfH4T3DH_L3FEYsQ/s1280/WILLA%20MUIR%20COVER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="901" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6MDbpokK7sdGpGWnlIIgn7oczbb6h7eud76BkZXiiLZsbU4NebAcddVakwX5gl6ZDDQgwYgcFX5LXTXBPyxDLlmbpA9UnuNNmRngKszNAImm63mn3SPeUjHT8l2LcxjzL3nuA2IwE-7q0naUaTGvsek4Uf5QPpeHL_RUocvgT1kcfH4T3DH_L3FEYsQ/s320/WILLA%20MUIR%20COVER.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0-Mn-R2rsjyLTcnfO5-3Yd8MkDSe30l0O7ZNA58KxovKqW50QIPAyoIMDMYAvLGND-8XK63DJuYonhcaYgn6L-Cy6Mem9oRSj5YaHFop3y_KLPvLeST8JJWs7ZSkgGII7eQGCLmo71cF-Idpo_TYdFcuaO2jVAsBlms0hIvKc5-fYmS3WR6LjSopIUA/s1280/St%20Andrews%20Exhibition%204,%20Dame%20Sally.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1204" data-original-width="1280" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0-Mn-R2rsjyLTcnfO5-3Yd8MkDSe30l0O7ZNA58KxovKqW50QIPAyoIMDMYAvLGND-8XK63DJuYonhcaYgn6L-Cy6Mem9oRSj5YaHFop3y_KLPvLeST8JJWs7ZSkgGII7eQGCLmo71cF-Idpo_TYdFcuaO2jVAsBlms0hIvKc5-fYmS3WR6LjSopIUA/s320/St%20Andrews%20Exhibition%204,%20Dame%20Sally.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Professor Dame Sally Mapstone, Principal of the University of St Andrews, </div><div style="text-align: center;">introducing the event and manuscript exhibition.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuOJshMXJWUOkarQLvM46SLMuZMgTlDFUDyjGO0h7hgflk-5sqUWrMLO-P6WPTcamxEneBVB_XjjSVC6p4Yg9e03_Ghz2nD9PTPbk6xZmemPEHUgqtm8Qk-Gnchcxk0ld5MemW3TnIOOHjyzVbQBVf9vQqwMzTQgh9TklUHtnuP0cDbMokcgy29dvi1Q/s1240/St%20Andrews%20Invitation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="1240" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuOJshMXJWUOkarQLvM46SLMuZMgTlDFUDyjGO0h7hgflk-5sqUWrMLO-P6WPTcamxEneBVB_XjjSVC6p4Yg9e03_Ghz2nD9PTPbk6xZmemPEHUgqtm8Qk-Gnchcxk0ld5MemW3TnIOOHjyzVbQBVf9vQqwMzTQgh9TklUHtnuP0cDbMokcgy29dvi1Q/s320/St%20Andrews%20Invitation.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: right;"><br /></span><p></p>Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08355849350086979436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331407802093446025.post-14688871557800028652023-03-18T08:55:00.001+00:002023-03-18T08:55:26.994+00:00Willa Muir, The Usurpers<p> </p><p>Previously unpublished, a classic novel by Willa Muir. Available at the end of March.</p><p>We have had to wait seventy years for this novel to be published!</p><p>THE USURPERS, Colenso Books</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8TgSJvogvCA9GOUkZdfnccHl4JJfepL4sSqUru_RG7jS08t_UKib1seYu9bbJMv1bmE_4xalyQMP1XrkWrtKIUT34nNYi_PAgZyo-7DEuKT4OwrtYBWFmBWXGmTBSSn4ZoquWcbz7SX1j9OPFjIRa4pipIP1uw-ytHfPVs_QVk_L_H0Fp8ku1FdlOZQ/s1280/The%20Usurpers,%20Willa%20front%20cover%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="901" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8TgSJvogvCA9GOUkZdfnccHl4JJfepL4sSqUru_RG7jS08t_UKib1seYu9bbJMv1bmE_4xalyQMP1XrkWrtKIUT34nNYi_PAgZyo-7DEuKT4OwrtYBWFmBWXGmTBSSn4ZoquWcbz7SX1j9OPFjIRa4pipIP1uw-ytHfPVs_QVk_L_H0Fp8ku1FdlOZQ/s320/The%20Usurpers,%20Willa%20front%20cover%20(2).jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The typescript has been held in the Special Collection of the Library of the University of St Andrews along with the diaries, journal and other manuscripts of Willa Muir. This is a publishing event of major importance, a political and satirical novel dealing with the years leading up to the Communist takeover of power in Prague in 1948. Willa and Edwin Muir lived in Czechoslovakia from 1945 to 1948 and both of them explored the impact of those tense and increasingly difficult times, Edwin in his poems and autobiography, Willa in <i>The Usurpers</i> and in her memoirs, <i>Belongin</i>g.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP97S3dtBbQ3HEmTVzVHWMWWNiu75CgTNZiU7vy_n_qV7mVXb41JOyDnqFitu-fIs0UBV4t49_8WMbpPQmNzqeS9BLw2VROehkTF5uLFuZacgN2MHrY6or2Q9Wt6KfuwcHTcCocH7Nk3UdwB5zBU9nMe6DiPAEk3lOlg-Fx6SfLGLK78uNjgyLm3JmXw/s640/USURPERS%20TITLE%20PAGE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="610" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP97S3dtBbQ3HEmTVzVHWMWWNiu75CgTNZiU7vy_n_qV7mVXb41JOyDnqFitu-fIs0UBV4t49_8WMbpPQmNzqeS9BLw2VROehkTF5uLFuZacgN2MHrY6or2Q9Wt6KfuwcHTcCocH7Nk3UdwB5zBU9nMe6DiPAEk3lOlg-Fx6SfLGLK78uNjgyLm3JmXw/s320/USURPERS%20TITLE%20PAGE.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p>Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08355849350086979436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331407802093446025.post-14661033448678594522023-02-09T15:28:00.002+00:002023-02-09T15:29:06.154+00:00COLENSO BOOKS, latest catalogue listing<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The rules of the game were loosely suggested by the example of Desert Island discs.</p><p>Obviously it wouldn't be possible to read a long poem at such a meeting, but given the chance I would take a long epic to occupy my time in isolation or exile on an island:</p><p>Milton's <i>Paradise Lost</i>, Homer's <i>Odyssey</i> for starters.</p><p>Or amusing long poems like Byron's <i>Don Juan</i>. </p><p>If allowed a sequence of poems, I'd take George Seferis' <i>Mythistorima</i>, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Eliot's <i>Four Quartets</i>, Blake's S<i>ongs of Experience</i>, Hardy's <i>Poems 1912-1913</i>, William Barnes' <i>Poems in the Dorset Dialect</i>, Edwin Muir's <i>The Labyrinth</i> collection. That would probably be cheating.</p><p>In terms of shorter single poems, I'd probably take Yeats' <i>Sailing to Byzantium</i>, Donne's <i>Sweetest Love, I do not go</i>, Hardy's <i>Beeny Cliff</i>, Wordsworth's <i>Tintern Abbey</i>, Eliot's <i>East Coker</i>, Eva Strom's <i>The Outer Hebrides.</i> </p><p>Ask me in a few weeks, and I'd probably come up with another list.</p><p>Sadly, I missed the meeting as my car battery was dead. The AA came eventually, and I had to buy a new battery.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08355849350086979436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331407802093446025.post-27253010991250170722022-11-22T07:55:00.001+00:002022-11-22T08:00:03.309+00:00Sarah Ekdawi, Poems by Daylight<br /><br />I've been reading an outstanding collection of poems by Sarah Ekdawi, published by Colenso Books in November 2022. <br /><br />Copies are available from many sources, here is the W H Smith listing, as an example: <br /><br /><a href="https://www.whsmith.co.uk/.../paper.../9781912788262.html">https://www.whsmith.co.uk/.../paper.../9781912788262.html</a> <br /><br />I wasn't surprised to learn that Sarah has worked as a translator and that she has a keen interest in Sikelianos and Cavafy. <br /><br />Poems by Daylight will continue to make a deep impression. Recommended! <br /><br />From the publisher: <br /><br />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'.Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08355849350086979436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331407802093446025.post-9310507771625636662022-09-06T08:35:00.001+01:002022-09-06T22:17:40.820+01:00Paul Theroux, from The Kingdom by the Sea, A Journey around the Coast of Great Britain<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An American perspective, written forty years ago.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7e7FR3_u21Z8bFtA9h2p2Bgr3viiOxPOvswPi9FRFSF7rBsLScKxZPriyEF_EKRxUAkWI_w80sjcQ8F3Xv2yEfLr0V8mhiRaCPAlx2sgU2NHZUFJ0KvUVEww8U4e1CJS-pyuMtJswjut7tybkjNdTGLfSyQTWql2eMZTQyBzo8BeH4hdy-qqdWB_SfA/s554/Theroux%20Conclusion%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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William Barnes, Thomas Hardy and Maria...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmXoUfjUuKHARLCE-tBzrkQU4XSovqZHV6eRaOxeqUGGo-JVDV5WKBS23s7z-1ax90ce8cgJNmnvJoN1p5VCWTlqRowsr3fia7cIydTwRjCdv9nge1F_wKetL6Kfp7cHKzGsxCTCIO2zSM1nZy_XDSQjlWpRrCmgJRIj3TGQ9DqLGqhrksspTw-p9A7A/s333/Barnes%20quote,%20Poundbury%20Cemetery.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="333" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmXoUfjUuKHARLCE-tBzrkQU4XSovqZHV6eRaOxeqUGGo-JVDV5WKBS23s7z-1ax90ce8cgJNmnvJoN1p5VCWTlqRowsr3fia7cIydTwRjCdv9nge1F_wKetL6Kfp7cHKzGsxCTCIO2zSM1nZy_XDSQjlWpRrCmgJRIj3TGQ9DqLGqhrksspTw-p9A7A/s320/Barnes%20quote,%20Poundbury%20Cemetery.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja7Og4mlqX-i-biO-qobU8Z7vRY1x2iXSDGDzffwr6qbu60XPq0uTl9D202MQmt1-J7g5kFHHDNXzTs8f5U6JdD9JMxkFiT2g376r-boQqKjO-3cH94U7iO7RV2tJL0HuK1rzCt9gPftS8o6bLIo0jlwqv1tG_mWXubA-jKnowFI8uqrIoycVNBHz_mQ/s320/Hardy%20Quote,%20Poundbury%20Cemetery.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A brass memorial plaque was installed yesterday, close to the ancient Poundbury hillfort.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A place to walk, meditate, remember.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury_Hill">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury_Hill</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl7kiSwmeAW_yXfxQsdQ4z3hajKfIz_1oPfaTPfQKvK4TKimYe_vCnYNes7HNoQ7b3BI89L56eNRRi6uKCqnl_2X2S--mG1WUjImap20BK1wuvvhNnGJuaZRiygGfLDXJ5NN32il0W5klRkaTASoJlwB3E7aj9uRIeAHbb2WbW2GdlwYOSiGSycl1Rqw/s1280/POUNDBURY%20HILLFORT%20JULY%2015%202022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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No answerer I...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Meanwhile the winds, and rains,</div><div style="text-align: center;">And Earth’s old glooms and pains</div><div style="text-align: center;">Are still the same, and Life and Death are neighbours nigh.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thomas Hardy</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjihfPQ7ITQMzyoarAu3eoaNYZWfnNOvHUtyeRZT9SsM1ap2Y2vYwKuEw7awflQtNTDrpkJiOJTBqfNAc7gx9p2UTEa6NwlDCj453K1PMYJaxlOH21EyDW-OMRJUl-arsscg_r2L5RBZkrJlBV1HQ5nC2Z0eXIpuA3FEu5d3Jd1eswpeLOH9BHgCdY7zw/s535/Plaque%20and%20Jim.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="305" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjihfPQ7ITQMzyoarAu3eoaNYZWfnNOvHUtyeRZT9SsM1ap2Y2vYwKuEw7awflQtNTDrpkJiOJTBqfNAc7gx9p2UTEa6NwlDCj453K1PMYJaxlOH21EyDW-OMRJUl-arsscg_r2L5RBZkrJlBV1HQ5nC2Z0eXIpuA3FEu5d3Jd1eswpeLOH9BHgCdY7zw/s320/Plaque%20and%20Jim.jpg" width="182" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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È un sogno la vita che par sì gradita, è breve gioire, bisogna morire. Non val medicina, non giova la China, non si può guarire, bisogna morire…E quando che meno ti pensi, nel seno ti vien a finire, bisogna morire. Se tu non vi pensi hai persi li sensi, sei morto e puoi dire: bisogna morire. <br /><br /> <br /><a href="#">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0k3OptSyrs</a> <br /><br /><br /><a href="#">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpAxBZSXW28</a> <br /><br /> <br />"Oh how wrong you are to think that the years will never end. We must die. Life is a dream, that seems so sweet, but joy is all too brief. We must die. Of no avail is medicine, of no use is quinine, we cannot be cured. We must die. Worthless are lamentations, threats, bravado produced by our courage. We must die. No learned doctrine can find the words to calm this boldness We must die. There is no means to untie this knot, it is useless to flee. We must die. It is the same for everyone, a wily man cannot shield himself from the blow, We must die. Cruel Death is unfaithful to all, and shames everyone. Die we must. And yet, o madness, o ravings, it seems like lying to oneself. Die we must. We die singing, we die playing the cittern, the bagpipe, yet die we must. We die dancing, drinking, eating; with this carrion, die we must. Youths, children, and all men must end in dust. We must die. The healthy, the sick, the brave, the defenceless, must all make an end, We must die. And when you are least thinking of it, in your breast, all comes to an end, We must die. If you do not think of this, you have lost your senses, you are dead and you can say: We must die".</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oh come t'inganni se pensi che gl'anni non hann' da finire, bisogna morire. È un sogno la vita che par sì gradita, è breve gioire, bisogna morire. Non val medicina, non giova la China, non si può guarire, bisogna morire. Non vaglion sberate, minarie, bravate che caglia l'ardire, bisogna morire. Dottrina che giova, parola non trova Che plachi l'ardire, bisogna morire. Non si trova modo di scoglier 'sto nodo, non val il fuggire, bisogna morire. Commun'è statuto, non vale l'astuto 'sto colpo schermire, bisogna morire. La morte crudele a tutti è infedele, ogn'uno svergogna, morire bisogna. È pur ò pazzia o gran frenesia, par dirsi menzogna, morire bisogna. Si more cantando, si more sonando la Cetra, o Sampogna, morire bisogna. Si muore danzando, bevendo, mangiando; con quella carogna morire bisogna. I Giovani, i putti e gl'Huomini tutti s'hann'a incenerire, bisogna morire. I sani, gl'infermi, i bravi, gl'inermi tutt'hann'a finire, bisogna morire. E quando che meno ti pensi, nel seno ti vien a finire, bisogna morire. Se tu non vi pensi hai persi li sensi, sei morto e puoi dire: bisogna morire.</p>Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08355849350086979436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331407802093446025.post-8689959123569332562022-06-05T21:20:00.002+01:002022-08-13T09:24:45.411+01:00Maria and Jim, Happy Days<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2h_DYPeDgyiMtvd6uzwKFJX3d5Xo4gCREKkOhpT5Na4xY2cfiPKdm-ZyxZihrH_7X-7Y0j77Ge8i0my1u1E2pEPkp1wsSRw0fU7ddfKfC6YJDrHxfHtQPBB9dbdzObW1QOv27MwVHfDFzhrYND9lIqbHl6nRc2cEvijZkLFOdBRt5KwZydBYzuoY2CA/s760/M&J%20BW%20Jim%20and%20Maria,%20Oxford%20Visit%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="760" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2h_DYPeDgyiMtvd6uzwKFJX3d5Xo4gCREKkOhpT5Na4xY2cfiPKdm-ZyxZihrH_7X-7Y0j77Ge8i0my1u1E2pEPkp1wsSRw0fU7ddfKfC6YJDrHxfHtQPBB9dbdzObW1QOv27MwVHfDFzhrYND9lIqbHl6nRc2cEvijZkLFOdBRt5KwZydBYzuoY2CA/s320/M&J%20BW%20Jim%20and%20Maria,%20Oxford%20Visit%20(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZDowvMbi-QaspaLBGNJGN9rMkxgpMGFBlR4GuIHyds8sHSoCwttW_bUYmC8XNOFNVUCArzBXFSGFMhQyIfpXNHaUDDFbiUxYS6EjefitQoXA3fJSc_cax-nnyNbvt-RsPRcVENggCd2Z-LuTO8IASg556UhkYKbwgujq2H8bGsZUPCMYC8P5dzQlMqw/s960/M&J%201%20Jim%20and%20Maria%20Black%20and%20white,%20the%20gaze%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08355849350086979436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331407802093446025.post-72432215645944194562022-06-03T09:41:00.001+01:002022-06-03T09:41:35.960+01:00Corfu Book Launches, June 6, 2022<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXqxd8uzUyVKPujm0I8KjQSKv1oWo-G6MdBMmwJ5Vzvwa--lfultiO8LEJxBCi2XAL7t1C0DKqboxYbXtE7ya3GS30xXhtQEH1ioyIo9kZ8oAYDTCLk8cOpf4J8HSMvMU6cY1TDW37DVURQpPkS62RI31kxw1De805DwuTIPbExzIHEXO8DR3Q00VzdQ/s1280/BOOK%20LAUNCHES,%20PLOUS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="905" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXqxd8uzUyVKPujm0I8KjQSKv1oWo-G6MdBMmwJ5Vzvwa--lfultiO8LEJxBCi2XAL7t1C0DKqboxYbXtE7ya3GS30xXhtQEH1ioyIo9kZ8oAYDTCLk8cOpf4J8HSMvMU6cY1TDW37DVURQpPkS62RI31kxw1De805DwuTIPbExzIHEXO8DR3Q00VzdQ/s320/BOOK%20LAUNCHES,%20PLOUS.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anthony Hirst will also speak about the literary work of Maria Strani-Potts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I regret that I cannot be there in person.</div><br /><p></p>Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08355849350086979436noreply@blogger.com0