Poetry

Heron Books is delighted to support this event organised by the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition: A Performance with Phoebe Giannisi and Poet-Translator Brian Sneeden.

A leading contemporary Greek poet, Phoebe Giannisi brings together poetry, performance, ecology, and antiquity in explorations of language, place, and the living world. Copies of her book, Goatsong, will be for sale on the night. 

Phoebe Giannisi is the author of eight collections of poetry. A 2016 Humanities Fellow of Columbia University, Giannisi is a professor of architecture at the University of Thessaly, and co-editor of the literary journal frmk. She has translated Ancient Greek lyric poetry as well as the poetry of Barbara Koehler, Gregor Laschen, Jesper Svenbro and André Pieyre de Mandiargues. She lives in Volos, Greece.

Brian Sneeden is the author of Last City (Carnegie Mellon, 2018). His poetry and translations have received the Iowa Review Award in Poetry, an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, the World Literature Today Translation Award for Poetry, the Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant and other recognitions. He is a lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.