Mount Helicon
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In December 9, 2019  The High Windowpublished a supplement of translations from Modern Greek Poetry under the curatorship of Manolis Aligizakis. Here is another selection of work by four poets which, like those previously published, are taken from Manolis’ monumental anthology, Neo-Hellene Poets: An Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry: 1750-2018 , copies of which can be purchased by following the link to Amazon. Highly recommended also, for those interested in exploring further the riches of modern Greek poetry, is Manolis’s own website: https://authormanolis.wordpress.com/

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The Poets

Kostis Palamas• Tasos Livaditis  •  Miltos Sachtouris •  Antonis Fostieris

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Kostis Palamas: Five Poems

ORPHIC HYMN

Beyond the minds of the thoughtless
functionary and orphic hymnist
I bring back the hymn
of an ancient light worship
as my thoughts run to it now

a river stashed away

the people’s buzzing but a surprise
to the…