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This article 'is an attempt to give an expository overview of some of the major Greek-Australian poets of the first generation who arrived in Australia in the fifties and the early sixties. They are: Dimitris Tsaloumas (from the island of Leros, arrived in 1952 and settled in Melbourne); Vasso Kalamaras (from Athens, arrived in 1951 and settled in outback Western Australia before moving to Perth in 1960); Yota Krili (from the Peloponnese, arrived in 1959 and settled in Sydney); Dina Amanatides (also from the Peloponnese, arrived in 1958 and settled in Melbourne); and finally, Antigone Kefala (a Greek from Romania who went first to New Zealand in 1951 and finally settled in Sydney in 1960).'
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A Diasporic Journey: Greek-Australian Poetry in Bilingual and English Publications
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Subjects:
- The Observatory : Selected Poems of Dimitris Tsaloumas 1983 selected work poetry
- Dreams of Clay Drops of Dew : Selected Poems 2011 selected work poetry
- Landscape and Soul : Greek-Australian Poems Vasso Kalamaras (translator), June Kingdom (translator), 1980 selected work poetry
- Twenty Two Poems : Greek-English 1977 selected work poetry
- The Same Light 1989 selected work short story poetry
- The Alien 1973 selected work poetry
- Thirsty Weather 1978 selected work poetry
- Absence : New and Selected Poems 1992 selected work poetry
- European Notebook 1988 selected work poetry
- Poems 2000 selected work poetry
- Triptych : Poems 2003 selected work poetry
- Portrait of a Dog and Other Classical Bagatelles 1991 selected work poetry
- Falcon Drinking : The English Poems 1988 selected work poetry
- To Vivlio ton Epigrammaton 1980 selected work poetry
- The Barge 1993 selected work poetry
- The Harbour 1998 selected work poetry
- Helen of Troy and Other Poems 2007 selected work poetry
- Six Improvisations on the River, and, A Song of Praise 1995 selected work poetry
- Stoneland Harvest : New and Selected Poems 1999 selected work poetry
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