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”

Kostas Kanavouris, Greece

Patras World Poetry Festival Participants PWPF 2022

Τετάρτη, 03 Αυγούστου 2022

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Kostas Kanavouris, Greece

The Poems

VI

White paper: You are a scaffold.
White paper: A mouth.
White paper: A throat.
White paper: A stomach.
White paper: An anus.
White paper: You swallow everything.
You defecate everything.
White paper: Ordinary.
White paper: Irrational.
Because the prey is irrational
when the moon chases it.
Irrational is the tooth that shines
white, total white
in the glow of its hunger.
We are irrational too we who seek for
poems in its bowels
in the brutal, unconditional death
and even more irrational when we find them
and devour them raw
instantly and on the spot.

(From the collection, "Lamb – A poem in the mirror", Polis Editions, 2021.)

VI

Λευκό χαρτί: Είσαι ικρίωμα.
Λευκό χαρτί: Στόμα.
Λευκό χαρτί: Λαρύγγι.
Λευκό χαρτί: Στομάχι.
Λευκό χαρτί: Πρωκτός.
Λευκό χαρτί: Όλα τα καταπίνεις.
  Όλα τα αφοδεύεις.
Λευκό χαρτί: Συνηθισμένο.
Λευκό χαρτί: Παράλογο.
  Γιατί παράλογο είναι το θήραμα
  όταν το κυνηγά η σελήνη.
  Παράλογο είναι το δόντι που γυαλίζει
  λευκό κατάλευκο
μέσα στο φως της πείνας του.
  Παράλογοι κι εμείς που ψάχνουμε
  ποιήματα στα σπλάχνα του
  στον άγριο θάνατο τον άνευ όρων
  κι ακόμα πιο παράλογοι όταν τα βρίσκουμε
  και τα καταβροχθίσουμε ωμά
  αμέσως κι επιτόπου.

(Από την συλλογή «Αμνός – Ένα ποίημα στον καθρέφτη», Πόλις, 2021)

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XXI

White paper: You are a scaffold.
White paper: Rain that pounds the curbs.
White paper: Jules and Jim.
All the films I ever watched are called Jules and Jim.
White paper: A car falling in the water.
White paper: You are the astonished gaze that creates the world.
White paper: You are two men that do not know.
White paper: You are a woman suddenly.
White paper: Hand-to-hand.
And it is morning on your body.
If you don't hurry you won't catch any poem.
White paper: Wind.
White paper: You leave, always white.
White paper: A sound of paper being torn.
Nothing manages to be written.
The alarm of an unrestrained silence
overtakes us.
A white -Patagonian white-
that never asked you
and that a red carnage holds
in its teeth; the carnage of famine.
White paper: You are full.
White paper: You always move from white to white.
White paper: An ambush.
White paper: Danger.
White paper: A door is closing.
And it rains.
Like it always rains
always
and then nothing.

(From the collection, "Lamb – A poem in the mirror", Polis Editions, 2021.)

XXI

Λευκό χαρτί: Είσαι ικρίωμα.
Λευκό χαρτί: Βροχή που τρίβεται στα κράσπεδα.
Λευκό χαρτί: Ζιλ και Τζιμ.
Όλες οι ταινίες που είδα λέγονται Ζιλ και Τζιμ.
Λευκό χαρτί: Ένα αυτοκίνητο που πέφτει στο νερό.
Λευκό χαρτί: Είσαι το έκπληκτο βλέμμα που δημιουργεί τον
κόσμο.
Λευκό χαρτί: Είσαι δύο άντρες που δεν ξέρουν.
Λευκό χαρτί: Είσαι μια γυναίκα εξαπίνης.
Λευκό χαρτί: Σώμα με σώμα.
Και είναι πρωί επάνω στο κορμί σου.
Αν δεν βιαστείς ουτ' ένα ποίημα θα προλάβεις.
Λευκό χαρτί: Άνεμος.
Λευκό χαρτί: Φεύγεις για πάντα λευκό.
Λευκό χαρτί: Ήχος από χαρτί που σκίζεται.
Τίποτα δεν προλαβαίνει να γραφτεί.
Μας προλαβαίνει ο συναγερμός
μιας σιωπής ασύστολης.
  Ένα λευκό που δεν σε ρώτησε ποτέ
     - λευκό Παταγονίας -
  και το κρατάει στα δόντια της
  μια κόκκινη σφαγή ∙ της πείνας.
Λευκό χαρτί: Είσαι χορτάτο.
Λευκό χαρτί: Διαρκώς μετακομίζεις από λευκό σε λευκό.
Λευκό χαρτί: Ενέδρα.
Λευκό χαρτί: Κίνδυνος .
Λευκό χαρτί: Μια πόρτα κλείνει.
Και βρέχει.
Όπως βρέχει πάντα
για πάντα
κι ύστερα τίποτα.

(Από την συλλογή «Αμνός – Ένα ποίημα στον καθρέφτη», Πόλις, 2021)

The Poet

Kostas Kanavouris was born in Kavala in 1955. He is a graduate of the Department of Political Science of the Panteion University. He is working as columnist and as radio producer of poetry programmes for the The Greek Broadcast Corporation. He is member of the Journalists' Union of Athens Daily Newspapers and founding member of the Cycle of Poets. He has published ten poem collections, one collection of articles, one short stories collection and a novella.

Ο Κώστας Καναβούρης γεννήθηκε στην Καβάλα το 1955. Είναι πτυχιούχος Πολιτικών Επιστημών από το Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο. Δουλεύει ως αρθρογράφος κι ως ραδιοφωνικός παραγωγός λόγου στο «Τρίτο Πρόγραμμα» της Ελληνικής Ραδιοφωνίας. Είναι μέλος της Ένωσης Συντακτών Ημερησίων Εφημερίδων Αθηνών και ιδρυτικό μέλος του «Κύκλου των Ποιητών». Έχει εκδώσει δέκα ποιητικές συλλογές, μία συλλογή με άρθρα, μία με αφηγήματα και μία νουβέλα.

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