Many of the poems in Futures<\/em> explore the gradual, often violent, modification of personal and collective identity in a time of crisis. From a city whose walls bear urgent messages and complex political graffiti come dynamic, angry voices.<\/p>\n “the gouged marble, the graffiti scrawls, from \u2018This City\u2019 by Adrianne Kalfopoulou<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Futures<\/em> is divided into four sections named after banking jargon such as ‘Implementation’ and ‘Adjustment’, thus undercutting the language of global finance even at a structural level. And in many poems, Greece’s Classical heritage and reputation as ‘the birthplace of Democracy’ come under scrutiny.<\/p>\n “We’ve lost our marbles – Elgin took a chunk – from ‘Austerity Measures’ by A.E. Stallings<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Futures<\/em> is edited and translated into English by Athenian writer Theodoros Chiotis<\/strong> and features poems from prominent Greek poets, poets of Greek descent, and others personally affected or moved by the struggle to survive and resist. A vital snapshot into the Greek crisis, this is poetry that mourns the fall, damns the greed, and pounds a drum for change.<\/p>\n “I insert my future under the tongue from \u2018Incomplete Syntax\u2019 by Dimitra Ioannou<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Dimitris Allos, Orfeas Apergis, Vassilis Amanatidis, Marios Chatziprokopiou, Theodoros Chiotis, Emily Critchley, Yiannis Doukas, Nikos Erinakis, Phoebe Giannisi, Constantinos Hadzinikolaou, \u039aaterina Iliopoulou, Panayotis Ioannidis, D.I. (Dimitra Ioannou), Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Patricia Kolaiti, Dimitra Kotoula, Alexios Mainas, Christodoulos Makris, Sophie Mayer, Stergios Mitas, Eftychia Panayiotou, Konstantinos Papacharalampos, Iordanis Papadopoulos, Stephanos Papadopoulos, Eleni Philippou, Stamatis Polenakis, Nick Potamitis, George Prevedourakis, Theodoros Rakopoulos, Kiriakos Sifiltzoglou, Eleni Sike\u0301liano\u0300s, A. E. Stallings, Yiannis Stiggas, Barnaby Tideman, Maria Topali, Tryfon Tolides, Thanasis Triaridis, Thomas Tsalapatis, George Ttoouli, Universal Jenny, Steve Willey.<\/p>\n _<\/span><\/p>\n For further information, to request review copies, or to arrange an interview with Theodoros Chiotis, please contact his publicist James Trevelyan on 020 7375 0121 or james@pennedinthemargins.co.uk.<\/p>\n Title<\/strong> Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis _<\/span><\/p>\n Theodoros Chiotis<\/strong> (editor) is a poet and literary theorist. His work has appeared in magazines and anthologies in Greece, the UK, the US, Sweden, Croatia and Australia. He is Project Manager at the Cavafy Archive (Onassis Foundation) and a DPhil candidate in the Department of Modern Greek at the University of Oxford. He lives in Athens.<\/p>\n Penned in the Margins<\/strong> creates publications and performances for people who are not afraid to take risks. We believe in the power of language to challenge how we think, test new ideas and explore alternative stories. We operate across the arts, collaborating with writers, artists and creative partners using new platforms and technologies. Their award-winning publications include Adventures in Form<\/em>, Mount London<\/em> and poetry collections by Luke Wright, Claire Tr\u00e9vien, Siddhartha Bose and Melissa Lee-Houghton. Their first novel, Midland<\/em> by Honor Gavin, is shortlisted for the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9850"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16135,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850\/revisions\/16135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe statue standing like something outraged
\nremind you, you who yearned to live beyond this,
\nthat hope marked you too.”<\/p>\n
\nCaryatids, gone on strike, sit down instead;
\nTeargas lingers like a whiff of skunk.”<\/p>\n
\nmy future voice represents something
\nperhaps a given moment
\nperhaps a language-robbery”<\/p>\n_ss<\/span><\/h3>\n
Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis will be launched at London’s Free Word Centre on Friday 13 November. Get your tickets here<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Contributors<\/h3>\n
Notes for editors<\/h3>\n
\nAuthor<\/strong> Theodoros Chiotis (editor)
\nRRP<\/strong> \u00a310.99
\nPage extent<\/strong> 230 pages
\nPublication date<\/strong> 5 November 2015
\nISBN<\/strong> 978-1-908058-24-9
\nPublisher<\/strong> Penned in the Margins (London)<\/p>\nBiographies<\/h3>\n
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