The book includes seventy-three paintings by Yannis Psychopedis, created specifically for this edition between August and December 2006, as a form of inspired dialogue between the painter and the poet.
The selection of Kiki Dimoula’s poems was made by the painter himself from her complete works.
The publication also includes Kiki Dimoula’s unpublished poem ‘I posted you a pebble yesterday’, written on the occasion of this poetic-visual ‘Encounter’.
As Yannis Psychopedis writes in the book’s foreword: ‘…The flow of poetry and that of painting are like two untamed rivers running parallel, each with its own waters, its own sources, yet connected deep within the earth, and emerging from a common outlet… And the more painting and poetry remain true to themselves, the more they can understand one another and capture the deepest psychological landscape, the common ground that connects them and within which they blossomed…’
- Pages: 306
- ISBN: 978-960-8399-46-4
- Publication: 2007
- Categories: Books, Illustrated, Λεύκωμα
Kiki Dimoula
She was born and lived in Athens (1931–2020). She married the civil engineer and poet Athos Dimoulas, with whom she had two children. She worked as a clerk at the Bank of Greece for 25 years. In 2002, she was elected a full member of the Academy of Athens. In 1964, she received an honourable mention from the Group of Twelve for her collection *In the Footsteps*. In 1972, she was awarded the Second State Poetry Prize for the collection *The Little of the World*, in 1989 with the First State Poetry Prize for the collection *Rejoice Never*, and in 1995 with the Academy of Athens’ Ouranis Prize for the collection *The Adolescence of Oblivion*. In 2001, she was awarded the Academy of Athens’ Prize for Excellence in Literature for her entire body of work, and the Golden Cross of the Order of Honour by the President of the Republic, Konstantinos Stefanopoulos. In March 2010, the Association Capitale Européenne des Littératures awarded her the European Prize for Literature as part of the fifth European Literature Meeting. In the same year, she was honoured for her entire body of work with the Grand State Prize for Literature. In 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in Theology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her poems have been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Bulgarian, German and Swedish.
