“the gouged marble, the graffiti scrawls,
the statue standing like something outraged
remind you, you who yearned to live beyond this,
that hope marked you too.”from ‘This City’ by Adrianne Kalfopoulou
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Futures features some of the most daring new voices in Greek poetry, together with international poets with Greek connections. These bold, impassioned and critically aware texts stake new poetic and political ground: they articulate what it means to live in a time when capitalism is buckling under its own weight and new ways of living and thinking seem to be emerging. In a time of crisis, Futures calls for solidarity, resistance and poetry as a political paradigm.
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Contributors
Dimitris Allos, Orfeas Apergis, Vassilis Amanatidis, Marios Chatziprokopiou, Theodoros Chiotis, Emily Critchley, Yiannis Doukas, Nikos Erinakis, Phoebe Giannisi, Constantinos Hadzinikolaou, Κaterina Iliopoulou, Panayotis Ioannidis, D.I. (Dimitra Ioannou), Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Patricia Kolaiti, Dimitra Kotoula, Alexios Mainas, Christodoulos Makris, Sophie Mayer, Stergios Mitas, Eftychia Panayiotou, Konstantinos Papacharalampos, Iordanis Papadopoulos, Stephanos Papadopoulos, Eleni Philippou, Stamatis Polenakis, Nick Potamitis, George Prevedourakis, Theodoros Rakopoulos, Kiriakos Sifiltzoglou, Eleni Sikélianòs, A. E. Stallings, Yiannis Stiggas, Barnaby Tideman, Maria Topali, Tryfon Tolides, Thanasis Triaridis, Thomas Tsalapatis, George Ttoouli, Universal Jenny, Steve Willey.
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Coverage in the Greek press
Culture Now, Kathimerini, Book Press, Funcy, Times of Change, Tovima, Popaganda, Amna.
Reviews
“I want to gatecrash history,” reads the graffiti in one photo. This impressive anthology does just that.
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Launch events
Friday 16 October 2015
FRANKFURT Book Fair (Greek Stand)
Presented by Vangelis Hatzivassiliou
Thursday 12 November 2015
OXFORD 41 Wellington Square
Friday 13 November 2015, 6.45pm
LONDON Free Word Centre
Wednesday 2 December 2015
ATHENS Deree, American College of Greece
Thursday 18 February 2016, 7pm
ATHENS Onassis Cultural Centre
Wednesday 6 April 2016
CYPRUS Pharos Arts Institute, Nicosia
Media
Audio Recording of Futures Launch, 13 November 2015, Free Word Centre