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GR – Yannis Stiggas – Opening Poem

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GR – Yannis Stiggas – Opening Poem

This is the place gentlemen

Πολλές οργιές κάτω απ’ το τίποτα
έτσι
που τα μαλλιά μας μπλέκονται στις ρίζες του

υιέ μου υιέ μου Αβεσσαλώμ

σαν εκκρεμές δεν θα’ χες πέραση
έτσι κι αλλιώς εμείς
τον χρόνο τον εισάγουμε απ’ το Γκρίνουϊτς

γιατί ο δικός μας
έχει λαγούμια μαύρα κι ανεκπλήρωτα
φωνάζεις την αγάπη
και σου επιστρέφει ο αντίλαλος αιμόφυρτος

έχει μυριάδες χέρια που κοπήκανε
δεν ήταν αγαλμάτων
όλα τους
αργότερα μαρμάρωσαν

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Yannis Stiggas (born 1977 in Athens, Greece) has published three collections of verse and his poems have also appeared in many magazines and anthologies. In 2007 he performed in the intothepill project in the Karaoke Poetry Bar in Athens. His poems impress with the power of their imagery and language. By opposing the internal and the external view, and abstract and sensual observations, his texts hover on the margins of perception.

Publications:

Ο δρόμος μέχρι το περίπτερο [The Way to the Kiosk] (Mikri Arktos, 2012)

Poetry collection with German translations: Edition Poesiefestival Berlin (hochroth, 2010)

Ισόπαλο τραύμα [An even wound] (Kedros, 2009)

Η όραση θ' αρχίσει ξανά [Vision will start again] (Kedros, 2006)

Η αλητεία του αίματος [The Vagabondage of blood] (Gavrilidis, 2004)

Josep Pedrals (born 1979 in Barcelona, Catalonia/Spain) is a poet and musician. Before he started performing his poems on stage in 1997, he had been working as a bookseller. A sound poet, he had his first commission on the radio as a filler, providing charming nonsense rhymes to order. Josep Pedrals writes humorous verse which constantly shifts between quiet, sensuous and expressive passages. His performances are somewhere between Dada and jam sessions. In 2009 he was the winner of the Osaka Poetry Slam, organised by the Osake Goethe Institute. Until 2004 he played keyboards for the band Explosion Bikini. At the moment he is the leader of the ironic pop group Els Nens Eutròfics, in which he is the vocalist and songwriter and plays clarinet. He also writes stage plays and gives poetry curses for adults and children.

Publications (selection):

Els buits enutjosos (Assoc. Cult. Container 1999)

Eclosions (labreu edicions 2005)

En l’Ai, adéu! (Cafè Central 2006)

El romanço d’Anna Tirant (labreu edicions 2012)

www.joseppedrals.com

Edward O'Dwyer (born 1984 in Limerick, Ireland) is a poet and is stusying communication science. His poetry has been published mainly in literary magazines and anthologies in Ireland, the UK, North America and Australia. His first collection, Oboe, was published in 2007, with his second, A Love Poem Mostly For You due this year. His poem ‘Only by Chance’ was nominated for the 2012 Hennessy Literary Award.

Publications:

Oboe (Revival Press 2007)

Sotos Stavrakis (born 1973 in Nicosia, Cyprus) is a trained actor who in 2012 completed a theatre directors’ course in London. Since then he has been working on various theatre and film productions in Cyprus and Greece. Together with his wife, artist Lia Boyatzi, he opened the art space Kat`oikon in Nicosia, where regular exhibitions, performances and other cultural events take place. His first collection of verse, Anaporeia, was published in 2003. Sotos Stavrakis has also translated the one-act play Blackbird by David Harrower into Greek and put it on in his home country in 2010. Stavrakis also works as a dubbing actor for television.

Publications:

Anaporeia (2003)

Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało (born 1979 in Wrocław, Poland) has published two collections of short stories and six books of verse. She works as a television journalist, presenting a cultural programme in which new books are presented. Wolny-Hamkało not infrequently turns into a performance artist when presenting her own texts, using her whole body to reinforce the expression in her poems or playing vibraphone to enhance her verse. When she is not on the stage, she teaches creative writing and writes children’s books. Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało has a degree in Cultural Studies and is an acknowledged expert on multi-media and feminist art.

Publications (selection):

Mocno poszukiwana (Most wanted) (ATUT 1999)

Lonty (Fuses) (na zlec. Stowarzyszenia Pisarzy Polskich 2001)

Gospel (Biuro Literackie 2004)

Ani mi się śni (No way, I will) (Biuro Literackie 2006)

Spamy miłosne (Spams of love) (Wydawn a5 K.Krynicha 2007)

Nikon i Leica (Wydawnictwo Wojewódzkiej Biblioteki Publicznej i Centrum Animacji Kultury 2010)

Christoph Szalay (born 1987 in Graz, Austria) first attracted attention as a professional sportsman in the Nordic combined event in Austria. In 2007 he swapped his career as a skiier for a degree in German Studies in Graz. The 25-year-old lives and writes there and in his house in the Ennstal. He attracted public attention with his first book of poems, stadt / land / fluss, which was published by Leykam in 2009, and in which Christoph Szalay manages the balancing act between reflective urban and nature poetry on the one hand and playfully ironic procedures on the other. It brought his the literary promotion prize of the City of Graz and, in 2011, a START fellowship from the Austrian Culture Ministry.

Publications:

stadt / land / fluss. Gedichte (Leykam 2009)

flimmern. Gedichte (Leykam 2012)

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