Wireless Operator: Selected Poems and Three Stories - Softcover

Kavvadias, Nikos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0904388778 ISBN 13: 9780904388770

Publisher: London Magazine Editions (Enitharmon.), 2002

Synopsis

Nikos Kavvadías was a Greek poet and sailor, who wrote about the incidents and adventures of life at sea. His poems blend nautical terms and sailors’ slang with romantic imagery. He was born in 1910 in Manchuria and as a teenager in Piraeus joined the merchant navy. He spent almost his whole life at sea, dying in Athens in 1975. He travelled widely as a wireless operator in the merchant marine and while some of his poems relate to exotic ports of call the language remains sober and simple. He is one of those rare poets who succeeds equally on a serious and popular level. Simon Darragh’s translations, the first to be published in England, do justice to his various gifts, both as poet and story-teller.

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Nikos Kavvadías was a Greek poet and sailor, who wrote about the incidents and adventures of life at sea. He was a professional sailor, whose poems blend nautical terms and sailors' slang with romantic imagery. He travelled wide as a wireless operator in the merchant marine and while some of his poems relate to exotic ports of call the language remains sober and simple. He is one of those rare poets who succeeds equally on a serious and popular level. Simon Darragh's translations, the first to be published in England, do justice to his various gifts, both as a poet and storyteller. He was born in 1910 in Manchuria and as a teenager in Piraeus joined the merchant navy. He spent almost his whole life at sea, dying in Athens in 1975.

Edition details

• Publisher: London Magazine Editions (Enitharmon.)
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0904388778
• ISBN 13: 9780904388770
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 96