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- Michael Pais
- Andrea Demetriou
- Angela Costi
- Yiota Stratis
- Dr Christos Galiotos
- Dimitris Troaditis
- Ντίνος Τουμάζος
- Eleni Katsoulaki
- Dr Erma Vassiliou
- Fedon Theofilou
- Soula Mousoura-Tsoukala
- Dr Nicholas Fourikis
- Frederika Apokidou
- Gabriel Panagiosoulis
- Gabrielle Morgan
- Ioannis Panagakos
- John Liaskos
- Ioustini Fragouli
- Maro Gemetta
- Liat Kirby-Nagar
- Iakovos Garivaldis
- Stratos Doukakis
- Michael Morgan
- Nicos Nicolaides
- Nikos Piperis
- Panagiotis Garmiris
- Pechlivanidou Evangelia
- Ross Spirou
- Sofia Kostos
- Sophocles Kitharidis
- Spyros Darsinos
- Tasos Damianos
- Thodoros Ioannidis
- Dimitris Tsaloumas
- Vana Kontomerkos
- Michael Pais
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Category Archives: English Literature
A Birthday To Remember
Another birthday story. Continue reading
A dip in the Aegean
To my friends Yiota and Justine from the Americas When you go for a dip in the Aegean You really must wear no thoughts Without charge, without malice For the Aegean needs you copiously pure. When you make it for a dip … Continue reading Continue reading
A Lonely Life
I saw him again yesterday afternoon when I was riding my bike along the beach. He was sitting on a bench gazing at the horizon, oblivious of what was going on around him. I noticed he had a sad expression … Continue reading Continue reading
A Phoenix Reborn
Mia fora kai enan kero… Once upon a time, not too long ago, for four plus centuries, successions of Ottoman Sultans reigned down like gloomy clouds, blocking sunlight from Grecian skies. Terror filled her once-free air: her rocks ached, her … Continue reading Continue reading
A picture like you
You’re a silent picture of profound green offered to a man sublime instantly adorned in the nick of time by the morning dew… But this silent picture of profound blue thoughts that pitched to a last goodbye leaving loose all … Continue reading Continue reading
A Visit to Mykonos
As an Australian, my impressions of Greece. Continue reading
Abigail
I was a sphinx gazing at The desert of my discontent Before I tasted your lips. After you kissed me Everything changed: The desert is a savanna now And I sing the fandangos of our love. Diasporic Associated content A … Continue reading Continue reading
Anthropomorphic visions of god
The more I think of man, the more I love the cows. Our Singapore Airlines flight followed the kangaroo route. In Rome, we headed to the Umberto Hotel and rushed to bed after a shower. Being in Helen’s … Continue reading Continue reading
…Or, what was worse? ©
A remarkable thing about the bodies that we saw was that nearly all of them were naked. I have been informed that the people were forced to take off their clothes before they were killed, as the Mohammedans consider the … Continue reading Continue reading
Baby Watching
His charcoal-blue eyes burn for knowledge, they sift the world in fragments, between the bars of the cot he sees half a mother, her hand reaching the door knob again her silent escape when the music still plays those ponderous … Continue reading Continue reading
Breaking the rules of writing
(C) Nicholas Fourikis As it takes me one to three years to write a book, I want to consider many issues before deciding what to write. The worst scenario I can imagine is to rush into a story and abandon … Continue reading Continue reading
Calliope’s Final Story
(for my paternal and maternal grandmothers) Long ago, we grew babies like markets stock fruit so many, splendid, ripe, bruised. A mother nursed her garden from bed, five cots, if lucky, for eight or nine. One bosom became the village … Continue reading Continue reading
Dashboard language, Γλώσσα στον πίνακα ελέγχου
Changing the language displayed on the Dashboard (where we add/modify posts) is very easy and straight forward for those who want to read instructions in Greek. Please watch the video supplied below on how to do it. However remember that … Continue reading Continue reading
Distraught beyond Description
By Dionysia Mousoura-Tsoukala She left her parents’ home to marry a man she feared more and loved less, a few weeks short of her 20th birthday. Not that birthdays meant much in those days. At best, she’d get good wishes … Continue reading Continue reading
Do you think humans have a death drive? What is it? Does Freud give a clear account of it?
Arguably, the Freudian notion of the ‘death drive’ has attracted scholarly attention throughout psychoanalytic literature. Scholars have predominantly viewed the death drive as either a misguided biological claim or as a contentious psychological or metaphorical claim.[1] Albeit, psychoanalyst and critical … Continue reading Continue reading
Follow the River
Let another year rest on your shoulders together with all the years past On cold winter nights there’s memories to talk about with yesterday’s music to beat in your heart Keep walking your road Diasporic Associated content love to play … Continue reading Continue reading
George – A happening on an Australian beach
It was Sunday. People stood outside the church doors, passively chatting, smiling and generally exuding their clean, well-groomed ordered appearance; too well clothed, for the day shone hot, laying bare the cream brick building and the strip of green grass. … Continue reading Continue reading
H.W. – A Lonely Man
I watch your intense gaze mirroring your emotions, Feel a sorrow that life cannot always answer our deepest desires. Wasted hours seem to flee us when our souls are yearning, unfulfilled, But days pass, and new consciousness arrives. Aloneness can … Continue reading Continue reading
Helen
We were ready to merge but she stopped me. ‘I haven’t finished looking at you,’ she said. Dazed in her aura She saw her image stamped deep On my molten heart. Diasporic Associated content A picture like you Helen Abigail … Continue reading Continue reading
Homage To Frederick
For fifty years every April llth, my birthday, I have taken from my bookshelf a small, blue, relief stamped volume, entitled “Life of Frank Buckland,” printed by Nelson. Not a great book, but fascinating, a grand opening to a new … Continue reading Continue reading
I Held History In My Hand
Tesserae. Diasporic Associated content love to play The Voice The song of ordinary life The Terracotta Woman The House Next To The Rose Tree …… Continue reading
Η Αποστολή του Ανθρώπου;
Όπως όλα τα μέρη ενός συνόλου, έχουν ρόλο κι αρμοδιότητα, έτσι και ο άνθρωπος σαν μέρος του όλου που (αναμφισβήτητα) είναι. Diasporic Associated content Philosophising about identity Do you think humans have a death drive? What is it? Does Freud … Continue reading Continue reading
Μελλοντικές επιδιώξεις – Future aims
Greek text Η Διασπορική Λογοτεχνική Στοά, όπως και κάθε άλλος οργανισμός, έχει στόχους και επιδιώξεις. Οι στόχοι της δεν αποσκοπούν πουθενά αλλού εκτός από την προώθηση των έργων των μελών της, την αναγνώριση της εργασίας τους και τελικά ίσως την … Continue reading Continue reading
Literary Agents, where are you?
Well, just looking at the title line a writer can start to shiver before they have a chance to start thinking what it all means and how it can help them on their way to become established. A daunting task … Continue reading Continue reading
Literary Competition Australia
Alice Munro wins the Man Booker International Prize San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA … overcoming competition from authors including Peter Carey of Australia, Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru and Joyce Carol Oates of the United States for the … See all … Continue reading Continue reading
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