Dimitris Leontzakos was born in Kavala in 1974 and lives in Thessaloniki. He studied music in Thessaloniki, Munich, Rome and New York. He works as a musician. He has five books of poetry published: Comic, (2001), Circe, out of the blue, (Metaixmio, 2004), Chinese, (Nefeli, 2010), Aktaeon's dogs (Nefeli, 2014), Tigers in aquarium (Saixpiricon 2016). His poems have appeared in many literary journals, e-journals and anthologies in Greece and also USA and Italy in translation.

His new collection of poems The eye and the Night is under publication.

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Enigmatic poems, but not at all utilitarian, crystal clear, but not plain, as well as – I believe- in tune with our dry, but not desiccated present, therefore poems that are contemporary.

Vassilis Amanatides, 29.04.2016

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Well, I fell that, in Leontzakos, the poetic procedure is an attitude which, according to Heidegger, takes human, even God, out of his nonexistence.

Eleni Garandoudi, litart.gr, 11.05.2016

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Well, the motifs; loneliness and ero[tici]s[m]; the roughness, the night, death. But even water (mainly in the form of a lake or overlapping lakes) [...] as directly or secretly hostile, up to threatening presences.

Panagiotis Ioannides, [frmk] #7 spring- summer 2016

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In Leontzakos, reality is not only disorientated, but also re-established rhythmically through art: however it is ontologically interrupted in such a way that it functions in a fragmented and deferred manner, inside a generally playful mood, always in view of the tragic suffocation of the being in the world.

Petros Golitsis, efsyn.gr, Escalations of the unspoken, 23.04.2016

E:  dleontzakos@gmail.com

F: Leontzakos Dimitris