Aim for Wide Water: Angelos Kouros
I intend to carry on promoting poets and have some videos in hand, but it’s time to shut the #plagueopoems down. Happily it can be found forever at the blog https://pestilencepoems.blogspot.com/?m=0 On the YouTube channel #plagueopoems and preserved in the Special Collections Department of University College, Dublin. This is an ongoing curation and not all videos have been captured yet. https://wayback.archive-it.org/15292/20210106110141/https://pestilencepoems.blogspot.com/ Now for Sunnier times! When I was in Greece in 2017 I attended a Translation Symposium in Athens for a short time until I was spirited away by Stavros Haviaras for drink. The work of Angelos Kouros was being translated at this event by Angelos Sakkis, who asked me for a wee bit of advice on some of the English and I also owerset one of his translations - Anafi- into Scots. The product of the Angelos' collaboration - 'A Way of Summer'- has just been published. So what better way to mark ends and...