The Poetry of Phoebe Giannisi | Readings, Performance, Conversation

Award-winner Phoebe Giannisi (Athens, 1964) is among Greece’s foremost contemporary poets. She is the author of eight books of poetry, three of which, Homerica (2017), Chimera (2019), and Cicada (2022), have now been translated into English by poet-translator Brian Sneeden. Her award-winning work focuses on field of ecopoetics, on the polyphony of voices attached to place, and the ethnography of the animated subjects that inhabit it. Bodies, weather, earth, seeds, orality, writing, love, female condition, mythic personas, sound, multiplicity, language, and animal beings constitute the primary subjects for Giannisi’s poetic activity.

The Center for Hellenic Studies is proud to sponsor and host this event, in collaboration with the APGRD (University of Oxford), the Bristol Poetry Institute (University of Bristol), the Michael Marks Trust, and New Directions Publishing.