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DIMITRIS ALLOS
VASSILIS AMANATIDIS
ORFEAS APERGIS
PHOEBE GIANNISI
KATERINA ILIOPOULOU
PANAYOTIS IOANNIDIS
PATRITSIA KOLAITI
DIMITRA KOTOULA
DIMITRIS LEONTZAKOS
IANA BOUKOVA
IORDANIS PAPADOPOULOS
DIMITRIS PETROU
STAMATIS POLENAKIS
LENIA SAFIROPOULOU
KIRIAKOS SIFILTZOGLOU
YIANNIS STIGAS
MARIA TOPALI
GIORGOS HANTZIS

THEODOROS CHIOTIS

 

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Iordanis Papadopoulos was born in Thessaloniki in 1976. He studied Civil Engineering and he is working in the Secondary Education.
In 2009 he published his first poetry book
The mountain and the poet have got no clue (Roes ed.) and participated in the anthologies "Poets in the shade" (Gabrielides ed., 2012) and "Poems of 2009" (Society of dekata ed., 2010).
Recently he took part in the festival “Soundout_New Ways of Presenting Literature” (Berlin, June 2014), in The Closet#4/Reading Nights (Athens, 2012) and in the literary meeting of the art exhibition “The Symptom Project/ The limits of together” (Amfissa, GR, 2012).
Recent poems of his can be found in online and printed literary magazines: Forte (iss.5, GR), FRMK (iss.2, GR), Boscombe Revolution (iss.1, U.K.), Poiitiki (Poetics)
(iss.10, GR), a glimpse of (iss.11, 12, GR), Literaturen vestnik (Sofia, BG).
His second poetry book is titled “Bras de Fer” (2015, Gutenberg ed.).
He is a member of the live art group “KangarooCourt”.

Delirium which digests emotion up to the cry without distorting lights and shadows, here is the joy of chiaroscuros. A head-on attack on the real, because there is an excess of the imaginary and it wants to express itself. Lots of salt brought unexpectedly in October this year. / Too much salt / second skin / all over the body.

Vasilis K. Kalamaras, Eleftherotypia newspaper

Iordanis Papadopoulos (b. 1976), in his first collection, composes a spleen identified by the paradoxical everyday nightlife in Athens, Kafkaesque to some extent. His writing indicates the underground evolution of an almost erotic struggle with poetry. With sharp verses and bitter humor, he expresses the anguish, his ambivalence toward the world, the exorcism or invocation of death and he shows considerable promise of a route that has just started and has a long way to go...

Giannis Doukas, poet