MP – I will not change anything on his great literary arts and poetry resume. CHRISTOS KOUKIS is a luminary in the area of poetry, creative writing and literary arts. He is a Creatives’ Legendary who has traversed extensively around the world with his poetry. He is widely published and anthologized around in publications , presses , journals and collections around the world . In his country, the great poet is widely revered as a representative of written and spoken word culture. Dear reader continue to follow our journals , like and leave your comments. Contact us at miombopublishing@gmail.com –MBIZO CHIRASHA/EDITOR.
THE CHILDREN OF SUMMER
The summer children make fun of winter and its proclamations in their mind all rails are flexible, all walls can be unlocked with one jump; all waves have the same home country
The summer children bend only to help fallen swallowsand they keep being distressed for things they didn’t catch up with They keep dreaming so much darkness and so much light
They keep been scared that so much love and so much pain may not be enough to create a warmer world
The summer children touch with naked hands the unknown
they take the risk and from all the prerogatives they choose memory they celebrate the great precipice climbing and singing
The children of all-night running fall asleep praying
to hold firm and at the end of summer to become shells
from all the wells to fall in the one that keeps their soul fit for drinking
The heart doesn’t lie in front of those naughty children something dangerous that every winter wants to avoid It is the duty of all of us and the most important care
to have the solution that these children carry to be listened to
THE EMPTY SPACE
The empty space
is the well-balanced space
a logical impasse and the last physic refuge
No feelings slips
emptiness doesn’t demand nor intervenes
firm against disfigurations, reluctant to challenge you
Silently waits for what exists to breath its last breath not at all an ungraceful role for such an unreal beauty
Humbly faithful to immobility it doesn’t decline ( in value) its crystal feeling reflects intact memory
In the empty space only peace evolves
if you are in agony, realize it, simply close your eyes and jump
SORRY
There is something familiar and attractive in pain a secret sweet pleasure
A friend of mine left this world, left a mother behind after the sun he left, before the moon
he couldn’t stand anymore living on the ground of the earth
and every night will be coming with its nails to resurrect the memory
What is written, what do we write and who distributes them
“Have you seen my child? it will come back, right?”
and, it is true, I had seen him but who comes back from the invisible in my sleep he had appeared fleeting and speechless
Lazarus is responsible
Lazarus who never sat to write his silence
who didn’t go around the world to declare his silence and we who only once we’ll live
when we’ll face the truth it will be too late
but luckily we should say….it is enough we loved each other it is enough we gave a hand to fallen people
enough that we gave our time to the statues of the park
The sunset looks like a first class” I am sorry” of death to us.
SHADOWS
Shadows stagger disarmed on the downward slope foolish by now they turn their wrinkled idol clouded They are the ones that stripped my body from joy
They stood up like half-destroyed bridges, irrevocable words, obstinate
Oh! how much did their era hurt me
how much I was humiliated working for them
Bankrupt by now, encircled and no longer inflated
they are in a hurry to sneak into the carriage of the night and I am in the appropriate position to call them
with plenty of satisfaction and relief
Shadows do appear, everything has ended.
PYRAMUS AND THISBE
From the ancient Troy to the wireless times not a moment sounded like another
their ashes spread some less some more
Only one thing remained the same and very important Juliette confided it only to Romeo
“nobody cares more about the world than those who are in love”
Sapfo had showed it one night to Oscar Wilde and a boy wrote it on a bombarded wall
“so many times death was disdained for lips like yours”
Antigone confessed it to Sophocles’ ear
“fires start from the inflamed blood of two people”
You told me you loved me and it was as if you made me a present of your weight in ideas.
CHRISTOS KOUKIS
Poetry collections, awards, professional memberships, etc.
2018 Participation and reading my latest book “Justice – Modern Guilt” in Shuffle
Festival, London United Kingdom
2018 Publication of poetry book «Justice – a modern guilt» in Greece, Kedros Publications
(translated in English by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke and Elle Arscott),
ISBN 978-960-04- 4907-5.
2017 Participation with two (2) poems in the anthology «Kleine tiere zum schlachten,
Neue gedichte aus Griechenland» (Germany), editions Parassitenpresse
2017 Participation in Documenta 14 Athens as a poet (writing, reading, translating) in the
International project ‘’The place of the thing’’.
2017 Selections of my poems published in the international poetry magazine (France-USA-
Germany) Levure Litteraire.
2016 Presentation of my lecture about Modern Greek Poetry in 20th century at University of
Lisbon, Portugal (in English) at the conference ” Da Poesia Neo-Helenica 1905-2016“
2016 Participation in poetry anthologies in Italy and Serbia with selected poems from all my
poetry books
2016 | Publication of poetry book “Velicanstven paradoks lepote” (in Serbian), Smederevo Publications Serbia – ISBN 788662-550507
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2016
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Publication of poetry book “Journal intime d’un amoureux” (in French), L’ Haramattan Publications France – ISBN 978-2-343-08620-0
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2016
2016 |
Completion of the theatrical play “ A big apartment in New York “ (in English)
Participation in Oaxaca, Mexico video-poetry Festival with several poems
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2014-2018 | Participation in twelve (12) International Poetry Festivals ( poems translated in English, French, Spanish-Mexican, Hindu, Portuguese, Serbian, Romanian, Slovenian, Italian, Turkish).
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2015
2015
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Completion of fairytale “ Fairytale for grown up people “ in Greek, English (by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke ) and French
Participation in the poetry anthology “Poetry Dialogues” ( in Greek) ISBN 978-960-446-107-3, Govostis publications
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2015 | Poems from all my poetry books were selected by Professor Jacques Bouchard for his lectures of spring semester 2015 at the Centre d’études néo-helléniques de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal Canada.
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2014-2016
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Co-editor of online urban magazine www.beausillage.com mission: editing of main weekly column on arts (cookies jar)
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2014 | Publication of poetry diary “Diary for Lovers” (in Greek) ISBN 978-960-283-414-5, Roes Publications ( translated in English by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke)
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2013-2016 | Co-editor of online poetry journal www.poeticanet.gr
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mission: preparation, filming and editing of interviews of all important Greek living poets ( interviews will be hosted by the Greek Ministry Of Education http://www.edutv.gr/deyterobathmia/videos/75-poets/ )
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2013 | Publication of poetry collection “The Great Paradox of the Sun” (in Greek) ISBN 978-960-446-203-2, Govostis publications (translated in English by poet Yannis Goumas) |
2012 | Participation in the poetry anthology “Poets in the Shadow” ISBN 978-960-336-849-6, Gavrielides publications
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2011 | National First Appearance Poetry Award, 31st Hellenic Symposium on Poetry, Patras Greece
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2011 | Co-curator/ co-organiser of the group art exhibition “HOMO SAPIENS IN LOVE” at Booze Cooperativa, 57 Kolokotroni str. GR-10560, Athens (foundation member of Curatorial team KolleCtivA2rt ©)
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2011 |
Publication of poetry collection “After Beauty” (in Greek) ISBN 978-960-336-595-2, Gavrielides publications (translated in English by poet Yannis Goumas)
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This is really great reading of great young poets … thank you
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