Ballad for the Unsung Poets of the Ages - Kostas Karyotakis

Kostas Karyotakis is the poet most emblematic of the turbulent interwar period of Greece. Though traditional in form, usually with end-rhyme and regular metres, Karyotakis' poetry is modern in content, often pessimistic and bitingly satirical. His writing combines reverie with sarcasm, a stifling sense of everyday reality with poignant irony. This is verse that is both piercing and resonant.