Patras World Poetry Festival 2022

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5h “Patras World Poetry Festival”

“From Hippocrates to poetry therapy”

1 – 4/09/2022 PATRAS – ANCIENT OLYMPIA

 

 

Along with many other important international participations and a rich event programme, this year, the 5th “Patras World Poetry Festival” is going to be held between the 1 and 4 of September, in different cultural locations of Patras and not only.

After two years of online realization of the Festival, Patras is again glad to receive in person 65 important poets from 13 different countries, 20 among them, being poets from abroad. This year’s programme has in store many surprises for the participants and for the audience, with visits and poetry recitations in particular places and in alternative ways.

The subject area of PWPF2022 concerns the healing properties of art and especially of poetry and it is entitled “From Hippocrates to poetry therapy”, so the complete action programme was planned with the purpose of creating a back – to - back interaction of arts, poetry and psychology.

The events are going to take place in the mornings and in the evenings in different locations of Patras every time, such as the Epikentro Theatre, the Foundation of Hellenic Diaspora, Achaia Clauss Winery  and the Villa of Kolla, while the last recitation is going to take place in Ancient Olympia through an all – day excursion of experiential character. The programme includes further guided tours, food and wine tasting and activities of cultural tourism, in order for the visitors to obtain the best possible experience from our land!

Ιmportant guests participate at the events, among them ambassadors of collaborating countries, internationally renowned academics, belletrists and representatives of entities.

Special moments of the Festival are the tribute to the poet Titos Patrikios, the Round Table with the subject “Healing through Poetry”, the visit at the “Foundation of Hellenic Diaspora” with its art exhibitions from important emigrant Greek artists and the set to music poetry event, entitled “Like a Shiver...”, which is going to take place at the Honorable Evening of the Festival.

All the events are open for the audience with FREE entrance.

 

At the same time. The Festival converses with visual arts and hosts two visual and one photographical project.

  • Art Platform | Lagrange Points

In passing of the collaboration of the contemporary art gallery “Cube Gallery” and Liana Zoza as a curator, with Patras World Poetry Festival, the art platform “Lagrange Points” was created.

The idea came up simultaneously with the proposition for the presentation of the two on going art projects “Open Studio” and “Invisible cities”, during the Festival and under the common title “L3 point”, at the same time with the desire for the continuation of the creative meetings of all forms of art.

Even if the term is a loan from the mechanics of celestial bodies, which discusses the rules of equilibrium and affinity of their relationship and coexistence, it also works with the same equilibrium at the coexistence of different art forms.

 

  • Peny Delta poet portraits

During the Festival, the photographer Peny Delta is going to create the portraits of the participant at the Festival poets and poetesses, which are going to be used at the archive of the Poetry Office and in the related publishing of the Festival.

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The World Patras Poetry Festival is organized by the “Poetry Office” of Patras and the CultureBook (Culturebook.gr), with the support of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Region of Western Greece, the Regional Union of Municipalities of Western Greece, the the University of Patras, the University of Western Macedonia, the Hellenic Open University, the Poetry Festival of Larnaka, the Embassy of Hungary, the Embassy of Czech Republic and the Athens Czech Center,  the Embassy of Poland, the Greek Library of London, the World Poetry Movement, the Epikentro Theatre, the Cube Gallery and other entities. It is under the evaluation of Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Tourism.

 

Patras World Poetry Festival forms one of the greatest literature institutions in Greece, the greatest of the Region, and has already stood out amongst the most estimable Festivals all over the world. Each year it receives important names of world literature and it offers an abundant programme of events, including poetry readings, presentations, meetings and cultural galas. Its vision is to promote the Greek literary creation globally and to popularize the capital of West Greece as a European literature center. Through its actions, it communicates with Chairs of Hellenic studies all over the world and it catalogues the recent poetry production.

 

*The organising of the Festival has a non-profitable character in every aspect and the participation of the people is costless.

 

CONCERT IDENTITY

POETRY SET TO MUSIC

“Like a Shiver...”

 

Like the way a note touches the word,

And oxygen life.

Music fights against verse, in a fight for love, man, society, existence, love, hate, passion and nature.

 

Participants:

Yorgos Georgiadis, Mandolin (evikoon melos)

Sani Peta, Mandolin (evikoon melos)

Yannis Anagnostopoulos, Guitar

Thomas Pallas, Guitar

Andreas Zafiropoulos, Piano

Themis Martekas, Percussion

 

Interpretation:

Hristos Konstantopoulos

Dora Mpeleri

 

Artistic curation

Yannis Anagnostopoulos

 

 

Orchestrations

Yannis Anagnostopoulos

Yorgos Georgiadis

 

 

PROGRAMME

5th PATRAS WORLD POETRY FESTIVAL

 

THURSDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2022

20.00 // Theatre Epikentro+

Welcome Drink

1st Cycle of Poetic Readings

Presentation L3 point: on going art projects “Open Studio” & amp “Invisible Cities”

Dinner for the participants

 

FRIDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2022

11.00 // Theatre Epikentro

2nd Cycle of Poetic Readings

Round Table on the subject “The Healing Properties of Poetry”

Free Programme – Knowing the City

 

19.00 // Winery Achaia Clauss

Guided tour at the Winecastle

3rd Cycle of Poetic Readings

Dinner for the participants

 

SATURDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2022

11.00 // Foundation Greek Diaspora, Kastritsi

Guided Tour at the Exhibition of Greek artists of Diaspora

4th Cycle of Poetic Readings

Lunch for the participants

 

20.00 // Villa Kolla

Formal Ceremony

Greetings – speeches

5th Cycle of Poetic Readings

Honorable Evening for Titos Patrikios

Concert with Poetry set to Music “Like a Shiver...”

Official Reception at Achaia Clauss

 

SUNDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2022

09.00-20.00 // Ancient Olympia

Excursion to Ancient Olympia

Guided Tour at the archaeological site

Visit of the Digital Museum 1821 – Krestena

15.00 // Lunch for the Participants

17.30 // 6th Cycle of Poetic Readings

 

The programme also includes:

 

- Tribute “meet the poets” from Culturebook.gr: presentation of the participants and diffusion in social networks

- Anthology of the Festival. Offspring of the organization and a literature consignment constitutes the collective trilingual Edition (and e- book) with the poems of the participants, in each one’s language, in Greek and in English.

- Art Platform | Lagrange Points / simultaneously with the presentation of the participants at the Culturebook.gr the art platform Lagrange Points is created

- Peny Delta poet portaits / During the Festival, the photographer Peny Delta is going to create the portraits of the participant poets and poetesses, which are also going to be used at the relevant publication of the Festival

 

 

PARTICIPANTS

 

ALBANIA     Alma Braja

BULGARY    Roman Kissiov, Nadya Radulova

ITALY            Matthias Tarantino

CZECH REPUBLIC Josef Hrdlička, Jan Škrob, Tim Postovit

CROATIAN   Marija Dejanović

CYPRUS        Eleni Artemiou-Fotiadou

HUNGARY    Weiner Sennyei Tibor, Izsó Zita, Bek Timur

NORTH MACEDONIA  Michailo Svidersky, Andrej Al Asadi, Gjoko Zdraveski

POLAND        Anna Adamowicz, Antonina Tosiek

SERBIA          Ana Marija Grbić

SLOVENIA    Petra Kolmancic

USA                Don Schofield

 

GREECE

Kyriaki-Koula Adaloglou, Giannis Alexandropoulos, Popi Aroniada, Anna Afentoulidou, Spyros L. Vrettos, Thanos Gogos, Yiannis Doukas, Lena Kallergi,, Dimitris Kalokiris , Kostas Kanavouris, Menelaos Karalis, Christos Katroutsos, Nikos Katsalidas, Giorgos Kozias,, Alexandros Kordas, Elsa Korneti, Dimitris Kosmopoulos, Giorgos Koutouvelas, Chloe Koutsoumpeli, Kostas A. Kremmydas, Triantafyllos H. Kotopoulos, Vasilis Ladas, Konstantinos Ch. Loukopoulos, Alexandra Bakonika, Theocharis Bikiropoulos, Konstantinos Bouras, Vasilis Pandis, Theofanis Papageorgiou, Sotirios Pastakas, Titos Patrikios, Aggeliki Pechlivani, Eleni Sigalou, Angeliki Sidira Papakosta, Antonis D. Skiathas, Yannis Stefanakis, Manos Stefanidis, Vangelis Tasiopoulos, John Tolias, Lina Fitili, Thanassis Hatzopoulos

 

 

 

Statement of Antonis Skiathas (President of the Poetry Office)

The Patras World Poetry Festival has created an international institution of literature that honors Greek letters, promotes Greek poetry and brings in contact Greek poets and poetesses with related poets and poetesses from all over the world.

Along its way, poets and poetesses from fifty countries have conversed at the Patras World Poetry Festival.

It is extremely important for all of us at the Poetry Office that the Festival is a matter of the whole town, as panhellenic, regional, local, institutions, businesses, citizens stand for the organising by every means.

The Ministry of Culture, the Region of Western Greece and the University of Patras are some of the institutions that support it.

The publishing that is been organized and the events at emblematic locations of the wider area like Achaia Clauss, the museum Diaspora, form the Festival’s identity.

At the same time, the synergism with cultural institutions and the connection of Poetry with other arts like music, visual arts, photography create all things that make the Festival unique.

 

Spyros L. Vrettos, Greece

Spyros L. Vrettos, Greece

Spyros L. Vrettos, Greece

The Poems


THE PROPER MOVE

They were so much the same that as soon as she made a move
in her home, he, who was elsewhere, guessed what the move
was and saw her doing it as if she were there in front of him.
Or as soon as she started to make the move she changed her
mind because she knew he would surmise it was the first
movement when she was doing the other one.

So one day when she was getting ready to go somewhere she
put on some lovely clothes and penciled her eyes with the light
of day, combed her hair by inserting her fingers ready to move
straight down. Everything just fine up to there. And though he
was elsewhere he guessed at each of these things correctly and
she understood that too and went on. And when the moment
came the stairway was waiting with all forty steps for her to go
down but instead of going downstairs and losing herself in the
streets she went the other way, toward the terrace. Because
again she knew he would guess it was this movement and not
the other. And so she went up and though not a hundred it was
nearly that number of steps. And the higher she went the more
certain she became that this was the proper move and he having
guessed the move saw her as if she were standing before him.

And he was there. And she knew it. And still two steps to go.
(Translated by Philip Ramp)



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Η ΣΩΣΤΗ ΚΙΝΗΣΗ

Τόσο πολύ ταυτίστηκαν, που μόλις έκανε αυτή μία κίνηση στο σπίτι της,
αυτός, που ήτανε αλλού, την μάντευε την κίνηση αυτή, την έβλεπε να
γίνεται σαν να 'τανε μπροστά του. Ή μόλις έκανε αυτή να κινηθεί, αμέσως
το μετάνιωνε, γιατί το καταλάβαινε ότι αυτός μιαν άλλη κίνηση θα
μάντευε, οπότε έκανε την κίνηση την άλλη.
Μια μέρα λοιπόν που ήθελε αυτή να ετοιμαστεί κάπου να πάει, φόρεσε
ρούχα όμορφα, τα μάτια της τα χάραξε με φως η μέρα, χτενίστηκε με
κάθετα τα δάχτυλα μες στα μαλλιά κι ετοιμαζόταν να κατέβει. Όλα καλά
μέχρις εδώ. Αυτός που ήτανε αλλού όλα τα μάντευε σωστά, κι αυτή το
καταλάβαινε και προχωρούσε τις κινήσεις. Kαι όταν ήλθε η στιγμή που
η σκάλα την περίμενε σαράντα τόσα σκαλοπάτια να κατέβει, αντί να πάει
στον κάτω όροφο και να χυθεί στους δρόμους, κινήθηκε αντίθετα, προς
την ταράτσα. Γιατί ξανά το καταλάβαινε ότι αυτός αυτή την κίνηση θα
μάντευε κι όχι την άλλη. Και ανέβαινε λοιπόν, αν όχι εκατό, πάντως τόσα
περίπου σκαλοπάτια. Και όσο ανέβαινε, τόσο το καταλάβαινε που η
κίνησή της ήταν η σωστή, κι αυτός την μάντευε την κίνηση, την έβλεπε να
γίνεται σαν να 'τανε μπροστά του.

Κι ήταν αυτός εκεί. Κι εκείνη το ήξερε. Δύο σκαλοπάτια ακόμα.




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A KIND OF DESCENT
OR THE LABORS IN THE NETHERWORLD


In the middle of the way or even just before
you need the words of the dead as a prophecy
or, at least, as new material
so you'll have something to tell us
to mince like a death experience.

But first hear the terms
before descending to the dead:
you have to suddenly occur for a moment
in some way that shows
that earlier you weren't;
difficult, of course, and deafening
-I imagine, for you to occur
something will have to be heard-
difficult, of course,
for you not to have pre-existed.

So suddenly pretend to be a shade
and with a big bang ravage
the orange trees of the nether world.

It's then that the first words will be heard.
So if they ask you to give the names of states
you'll say in short
ALVIRAKOU
and if they tell you to say Amvrakikos
you'll list numerous names
of coastal villages
and not just biographical data
from a simple memory.

And when, hopefully, you pass this ordeal,
illegible voices will come
for you to distinguish,
to say to whom each belongs,
who it is who still commands
his voice.

If you find even one voice
the oranges will emerge in the darkness;
the place will become like life.

I don't want a prophecy, you'll tell them then,
-and here's the secret-
despite the kind words of those dear to you;
the one wishing me a safe trip
and firing a dart of water at me,
the other sending me off with kisses
in secret from the third,
and the third giving me longing
as much as is needed for such a trip.

As the darkness burns boldly
so too the level of death
will rise in brightness.

As for you, proceed with the unburned water
and the kind words of those dear to you.

(Translated by David Conolly)



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ΠΕΡΙΠΟΥ ΝΕΚΥΙΑ
ή ΟΙ ΑΘΛΟΙ ΣΤΟΝ ΚΑΤΩ ΚΟΣΜΟ


Στη μέση του δρόμου ή και λίγο πριν
χρειάζεσαι τα λόγια του νεκρού σαν προφητεία
ή, τέλος πάντων, σαν νέο υλικό
για να 'χεις κάτι να μας πεις
να το μασάς σαν του θανάτου εμπειρία.

Αλλ' άκουσε πρώτα τους όρους
πριν στο νεκρό να κατεβείς:
θα πρέπει να συμβείς για μια στιγμή στα ξαφνικά
με τρόπο που να δείχνει
ότι νωρίτερα δεν ήσουν΄
δύσκολο πράγμα, ασφαλώς, και εκκωφαντικό
-φαντάζομαι, για να συμβείς
θα πρέπει και κάτι ν' ακουστεί-
δύσκολο πράγμα, ασφαλώς,
να μην έχεις προϋπάρξει.

Παίξ' το λοιπόν αιφνίδια σκιά
και ρήμαξε με κρότο
τις πορτοκαλιές του κάτω κόσμου.

Τότε είναι που θα ακουστούν τα πρώτα λόγια.
Άμα λοιπόν ζητήσουνε να πεις ονόματα κρατών
εσύ θα λες εν συντομία
ΑΛΒΙΡΑΚΟΥ

κι άμα σου λένε για να πεις Αμβρακικός
εσύ θα λες ονόματα πολλά
παραθαλάσσιων χωριών
και όχι απλώς στοιχεία βιογραφικά
μιας σκέτης μνήμης.

Έτσι, όταν με το καλό περάσεις απ' τη δοκιμασία αυτή,
θα 'ρθούν οι δυσανάγνωστες φωνές
για να τις ξεχωρίσεις,
να πεις σε ποιον ανήκει ποια,
ποιος είναι αυτός που ακόμα τη φωνή του
ορίζει.

Μία φωνή έστω να βρεις
θα αναδυθούν τα πορτοκάλια στο σκοτάδι΄
θα γίνει ο τόπος ως ζωή.

Δεν θέλω προφητεία, τότε να τους πεις ,
-κι εδώ είναι το όλο μυστικό-
αλλά τα λόγια τα καλά των αγαπημένων΄
ο ένας να μου ευχηθεί δρόμο καλό
και μια σαΐτα από νερό να μου πετάξει,
ο άλλος να με ξεπροβοδίσει με φιλιά
κρυφά από τον τρίτο,
κι ο τρίτος να μου δώσει τον καημό
τόσον, όσος χρειάζεται για τέτοιο δρόμο.

Πώς το σκοτάδι καίγεται με θάρρος
έτσι και του θανάτου η στάθμη
θ' ανεβεί στη λάμψη.

Προχώρα εσύ με τ' άκαυτο νερό
και τα καλά τα λόγια των αγαπημένων.


The Poet

SPYROS L. VRETTOS: Vrettos was born in Lefkada in 1960. He studied law at the University of Athens. He has published nine poetry collections, a poetry anthology, three books with essays and studies, and a short story collection. The first five poetry collections have been translated in English by Philip Ramp. A poetry anthology has been published in Italy in translation of Massimo Cazzulo. The Tanztheater performance "Medea from the beginning" by Maro Galani was based on the section of poems "Medea". Short stories from the book Enas aoristos anthropos were adapted into a play directed by Artemis Grympla.

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ΣΠΥΡΟΣ Λ. ΒΡΕΤΤΟΣ: Γεννήθηκε στη Λευκάδα το 1960. Σπούδασε νομικά στην Αθήνα. Εργάζεται ως δικηγόρος στην Πάτρα. Έχει εκδώσει εννέα ποιητικές συλλογές, μία ανθολογία ποιημάτων του με σχέδια της Αλεξάνδρας Ζώη, τρία βιβλία με δοκίμια και μελέτες, και μία συλλογή διηγημάτων. Οι 5 πρώτες ποιητικές συλλογές του έχουν μεταφραστεί στα αγγλικά από τον Φίλιπ Ραμπ. Ανθολογία ποιημάτων του εκδόθηκε στην Ιταλία σε μετάφραση Μάσσιμο Κατσούλο. Ποιήματά του έχουν μεταφραστεί σε πολλές ευρωπαϊκές γλώσσες. Στην ενότητα ποιημάτων «Μήδεια» βασίστηκε η παράσταση χοροθεάτρου «Μήδεια από την αρχή» της Μάρως Γαλάνη. Διηγήματα από το βιβλίο του Ένας αόριστος άνθρωπος έγιναν θεατρική παράσταση σε σκηνοθεσία Αρτέμιδος Γρύμπλα. Επίκειται η έκδοση της ιταλικής μετάφρασης της πρόσφατης ποιητικής συλλογής του «Διαπραγματεύσεις», και η έκδοση της νέας συλλογής διηγημάτων του «Η ψίχα και άλλες ιστορίες».

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Roman Kissiov, Bulgaria
 

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