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having drunk too many espressos
A plentitude of tones and forms and linguistic playfulness
‘Reading these new poems and returning to those read decades ago has been a delight because Ormsby is a poet of enviable gifts
I did all I could
‘Helen Farish knows intimately who she is and her beautiful poems capture the intense sadness of memories recalled as the years pass
Epitaphios by Yiannis Ritsos Autumn Bulletin having drunk too many espressosOn 10 May 1936 the 27 year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son, a Salonica tobacco factory worker killed by police during a strike. Two days later the Communist Party newspaper Rizospastis published a long poem by Ritsos. Dedicated to the heroic workers of Salonika and drawing on the fourteenth century Greek Orthodox Epitaphios Thrinos, the poem combines Mary's lament at Christs tomb
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