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- Translator: Philip Grundy
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To Vivlio ton Epigrammaton
Thessaloniki
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Nea Poreia
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1980
Z939558
1980
selected work
poetry
The Book of Epigrams
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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1985
pg.
27
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New and Selected Poems
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2000
Z12789
2000
selected work
poetry
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2000
pg.
82
Note: Author note: 'Born and bred in the fascist-held Dodecanese; liberated some time after the war only to experience the rigours of the Greek brand of police state first sponsored by the British and later perfected and liberally supported by their American successors, I developed a kind of affection for collaborators and informers. This poem is based on some wartime memories of the latter, a well-known informer in this case, whom I saw jumping off the roof of our house the moment I entered the courtyard one stormy winter night in 1942' (p. 132).
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