Patras World Poetry Festival

DECEMBER 10th - 13th 2020

We would like to inform you that due to the implementation of a new lockdown in our country and the increase in the number of coronavirus cases, the organizing and scientific committee of the “Jean Moréas International Awards” and the Patras International Poetry Festival postpones the date of the event on December, 10-13 of 2020.

Digital Event

The Patras World Poetry Festival 2020 this year is entitled "National Poets" and plans to host 60 poets from 15 different countries around the world.

This year the festival be held online and virtually, as far as COVID-19 impact affects significantly the implementation of this event.

In the four-day online event there will be 6 meetings lasting up to 3 hours, where the guest poets will be presented with readings in 2 languages, via live connection. The events will be attended by invited representatives of institutions and the jury, while the program will include speeches, presentations, tributes, music, etc.

In addition, the following activities will take place within the schedule of the Festival events:

online Award of the annual Greek Poetry Awards "Jean Moréas" (Saturday December 12th)
Art Exhibition "National Poets" with the participation of 20 Greek artists and 10 artists from different countries (live and digital tour)
Collectible trilingual edition of the poems of the participants, in the first language of each artist, in Greek and English

The 3rd Patras World Poetry Festival 2020 is organized by the Poetry Fountation “Grafeion Poiiseos”, the literary website Culture Book (culturebook.gr) and the multicultural center Epikentro Plus History & Arts, while every year it is under the auspices of the Ministries of Culture and the Ministry of Tourism*. Supporters of the event are the Greek Library of London, the Cultural Center “Kostis Palamas”, the University of Western Macedonia, the Hellenic Open University and many other important institutions, as claimed under the Aegis of the President of the Hellenic Republic.

Awarding of Poetry Awards "Jean Moréas" for the year 2019

This annual event will be held digitally at one session of the PWPF Poetry Event 2020, with a presentation of the award-winning poets and recitations by them. This is the annual event during which the "Jean Moréas" Prizes are awarded for Greek poetic art and Greek poetic production in its entire range. They are recognizable nationwide and concern the poetry collections that were published throughout the previous calendar year from the year of the award. They refer both to young poets and newcomers and to those who are recognized with their poetic work along time.

The event is highly appreciated by the Greek literary and artistic circle of readers. In this year's event, in addition to the institutionalized awards, a very important foreign poet will be honored, who with his/her lifelong work honors the literature outside Greece.The Award Committee is composed of Greek University professors, as well as very important poets and poetry critics who will evaluate the work of the honorees.

Sincerely,

On behalf of the organizing committee.

Kotopoulos H. Triantafyllos, President of the “Patras World Poetry Festival”

Skiathas D. Antonis, President of the Poetry Fountation “Grafeion Poiiseos”

Alaniadi Maria, Event Manager of the “Patras World Poetry Festival”

Iro Nikopoulou, Greece

PWPF 2022 Participants Patras World Poetry Festival

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Iro Nikopoulou, Greece

The Poems

Nocturnal Νude

Athens School of Fine Arts 1993

Effervescent, her body naked
solitary under the spotlights
at the centre of the workroom
us all gathered round it

on the floor, our instruments in hand
calculating, weighing the shine
the eyes the thighs the shoulders
the shapes in space, the air

her gaze and thoughts
mostly the weight she cast
onto the pedestal, the tiles
but more her light on us

and her long shadow
beyond the steamed up windows
the cold that split the wind in half
though in the workspace her warmth

once more would save our dreams tonight.

(Translated by Christos Sakellaridis)

Γυμνό νυχτός

Πολυτεχνείο 1993

Άχνιζε το σώμα της γυμνό
μοναχικό κάτω απ' τις λάμπες
στη μέση της αιθούσης
και γύρω γύρω εμείς

με όργανα στα χέρια καταγής
μετρούσαμε ζυγίζαμε τη λάμψη
τα μάτια τους ώμους τους μηρούς
τα σχήματα του χώρου τον αέρα

το βλέμμα και τις σκέψεις της
κυρίως το βάρος που έριχνε
στο βάθρο στα πλακάκια
μα πιο πολύ το φως της πάνω μας

και τη μακριά σκιά της
πίσω από τα θολωμένα τζάμια
το κρύο έσπαζε τον άνεμο στα δυο
μα μέσα στο εργαστήριο η ζέστα της

θα έσωζε κι απόψε τα όνειρά μας.

* * *

Days of Now

C.

At nights I come awake by the distant din
of the protests I did not go
smoke shapes silent gestures
Bodies pulsing
the air thick with shouts
feet stomping on the ground
a light rhythm an octopus
spreading grinds groans
crumbles of a future place

Inside their clenched firsts they balance
thin threads of dreams
Do not sing yet

They fill the alleys
the appartment buildings' entrances
they climb the stairs
they crowd the small living room
I feel their soundless steps
approaching the bedroom
I open and they go across
I switch side
and I unite with them

(Translated by Vassilis Manoussakis)

Mέρες του σήμερα

Γ΄

Τις νύχτες με ξυπνά η μακρινή βοή
διαδηλώσεων που έλειψα
σχήματα καπνών βουβές χειρονομίες
Πάλλονται σώματα
φωνές ο αέρας πήζει
τα πέλματα χτυπάνε καταγής
μικρό ρυθμό χταπόδι
που απλώνει τρίμματα τριγμούς
ψίχουλα τόπου μέλλοντος

Στις σφιγμένες χούφτες τους ζυγιάζουν
καλούμπες λεπτεπίλεπτες ονείρων
Μη τραγουδάτε ακόμα

Πλημμυρίζουν τα στενά
τις εισόδους των πολυκατοικιών
τις σκάλες ανεβαίνουν
στριμώχνονται μες στο μικρό σαλόνι
αισθάνομαι τ' αθόρυβά τους βήματα
να πλησιάζουν στο υπνοδωμάτιο
ανοίγω και περνούν απέναντι
Πλευρό αλλάζω
και ενώνομαι μαζί τους

The Poet

Iro Nikopoulou (Athens). She has studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and she has done many exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Her works can be found in private and public collections (Collection of the Hellenic Parliament, Mouseum Vores etc). Since 1986 he has published five collections of poetry, four collections of short stories and one novel. She has participated as a guest in many International Poetry Festivals. Her poems and short stories have been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Finnish, Turkish, Croatian, etc. and have been included in many corresponding anthologies. In the context of the 12th Greek-Ibero-American Festival "Literature in Athens" (LEA) was distinguished with the 1st Prize in the relevant short story competition. An anthology of her poems entitled Aceptiones de la Miranda, (Spanish, Sevilla, 2019, Padilla Libros Editores y Liberos, ElArbol de la Luz, translation Jose Antonio Moreno Jurado). www.ironikopoulou.gr

Ηρώ Νικοπούλου (Αθήνα). Σπούδασε στην Ανωτάτη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών της Αθήνας και έχει κάνει πολλές εκθέσεις στην Ελλάδα και το εξωτερικό. Έργα της βρίσκονται σε ιδιωτικές και δημόσιες συλλογές (Συλλογή της Βουλής των Ελλήνων, Μουσείο Βορρέ, κ.α.). Από το 1986 έχει εκδώσει πέντε ποιητικές συλλογές, τέσσερις συλλογές διηγημάτων και ένα μυθιστόρημα. Έχει συμμετάσχει ως καλεσμένη σε πολλά Διεθνή Φεστιβάλ Ποίησης. Ποιήματα και διηγήματά της έχουν μεταφραστεί στα αγγλικά, γαλλικά, ισπανικά, ιταλικά, ρωσικά, βουλγαρικά, ρουμανικά, φινλανδικά, τουρκικά, κροατικά και έχουν συμπεριληφθεί σε πολλές αντίστοιχες ανθολογίες. Συνδιευθύνει με τον Γιάννη Πατίλη την ιστοσελίδα για το μικρό διήγημα Πλανόδιον-Ιστορίες Μπονζάι. Στο πλαίσιο του 12ου Ελληνοϊβηροαμερικανικού Φεστιβάλ «Η Λογοτεχνία στην Αθήνα» (ΛΕΑ) διακρίθηκε με το 1ο Βραβείο στον σχετικό διαγωνισμό διηγήματος. Ανθολογία ποιημάτων της με τίτλο Aceptiones de la Miranda, (Spanish, Sevilla, 2019, Padilla Libros Editores y Liberos, ElArbol de la Luz, translation Jose Antonio Moreno Jurado). www.ironikopoulou.gr

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