Cleopatra Lymberi

Cleopatra Lyberi was born in Chalkida in 1953. She studied Music (Hellenic Conservatory), Painting (Athens School of Fine Arts), and undertook independent studies in Philosophy.
Ikaros Publications has released her books *Little Philharmonic* (1993), *Nikos Karouzos: I Met the Miracle as a Friend* (2020) and *I Am Not Yet* (2022).

Poetry collections: The Motorcyclist Death (Kaveiros, 1990), His New Year (Agra, 1997), The Verb ‘I Am Hungry’ (Agra, 2001), The Music of the Spheres (Agra, 2007), Zero in a Nest (Gavriilidis, 2018). Prose: Flower (Agra, 2003), The Burial of Count Orgath (Gavriilidis, 2015). Notes/fragments: Seven-Year Corasion (Agra, 2011), Poetry on Four Legs (Friends’ Publications, 2017). Studies: Neighbourhoods of Chalkida (Progress Euboea, 1989). Translations: Three Conversations – Allen Ginsberg’s Interview with Allan Clark (Printa, 2001), Deaths for the Ladies and Other Disasters, Norman Meiler (Kastaniotis, 2008), ‘Verses Are the Golden Rule of the Ephemeral’, Balkan Poets (Rome Publications, 2020), American Poets – Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Allen Ginsberg, Marianne Moore, Louise Glück, Rachel Hadas, Poets of Bengal, etc.

He worked as a book critic for the Eleftherotypia newspaper and continues to write reviews for Greek and foreign literary journals and for the newspapers Avgi and Kathimerini. He is a member of the Society of Authors and the Circle of Poets.