Cirrus@Austlit

'I want the things that I write to one day see the light of day, to be published. I want my children to understand that if they now live well, choose their partner, go on a honeymoon and live a better life, that they should not forget that their parents underwent years of hardship here in this foreign land. Those young women, who left their homeland and came here for a new tomorrow, often came up against such a lack of understanding that they were driven to despair, even suicide. It is to these wounded, immigrant women that I leave this book because I am one of them and I always think of them with love and compassion. - Litsa Nikolopoulou-Gogas' (Publication summary)

'A few months ago, my dear friend and colleague Helen Nickas quietly informed me that she was officially wrapping up her publishing house, Owl Publishing. Although I knew that she wanted to spend more time with her beloved husband George, as well as with her children and grandchildren, and that she had most certainly earned the right to a more peaceful retirement, I couldn’t help but feel a tinge of sadness.' (Introduction)

"The translator Konstandina Dounis is a Melbourne academic, writer and poet. She has studied and translated Ninolakis' poems as part of her academic research."

Taken from: http://owlpublishing.com.au/chapbook-series.html

'I have had the pleasure of living with Antigone Kefala's words fro many years now, particularly so over the last decade through my doctoral research, The Shadow of the Muse, where I focus on first-, second- and third-generation Greek-Australian women's writing.' (Introduction)

Dreams of Clay Drops of Dew contains two hundred poems, including the very short poems known as “Scattered Thoughts”, and translated into English by Konstandina Dounis, seeks to acquaint the English-speaking readership with the beauty of her work and the wide range of her thematic preoccupations. [From the publisher's website]