Haris Vlavianos (gr. Χάρης Βλαβιανός, born in Rome, 1957), is a contemporary Greek poet.
He studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol (B.Sc) and Politics and History (M.Phil, D.Phil) at the University of Oxford (Trinity College, Oxford). His doctoral thesis entitled, "Greece 1941-1949: From Resistance to Civil War", was published by Macmillan (1992).
He has published nine collections of poetry, the most recent being "Vacation ...
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Haris Vlavianos (gr. Χάρης Βλαβιανός, born in Rome, 1957), is a contemporary Greek poet.
He studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol (B.Sc) and Politics and History (M.Phil, D.Phil) at the University of Oxford (Trinity College, Oxford). His doctoral thesis entitled, "Greece 1941-1949: From Resistance to Civil War", was published by Macmillan (1992).
He has published nine collections of poetry, the most recent being "Vacation in Reality" (2009). He has also published a collection of thoughts and aphorisms on poetry and poetics entitled, "The Other Place" (1994) and a book of essays entitled, "Does Poetry Matter?: Thoughts on the Uselessness of an Art" (2007). He has translated into Greek, the works of well-known writers such as: Walt Whitman ("Selected Poems", 1986), Ezra Pound ("Hugh Selwyn Mauberley", 1987; "Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXX", 1991), Michael Longley ("Selected Poems", 1992), Wallace Stevens ("Adagia", 1993), John Ashbery ("Self-Portrait in a...
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