P u b l ι c a t ι o n s

Books:

The trilogy Poena Damni has been published as following:

Ατραπός η δελεαστική (atrapos i deleastiki). Poetry. Athens, Διογένης 1986. (Out of print).

Νυκτιβόη (Nyctivoe). Poetry. Athens, Οι Εκδοσεις των Φιλων 1989. (Out of print).

O πρώτος θάνατος (The first death) . Poetry. Athens, Οδός Πανός 1996.
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"Poena Damni, The First Death". With six masks by Friedrich Unegg. Translated by Shorsha Sullivan. Shoestring Press 2000. Nottingham.
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"Nyctivoe" (Greek original and German translation - translated by Nina-Maria Jaklitsch) from CTL Presse Germany Hamburg, 2001
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Periodicals:

The first death IV-V, in "Γραφή" n. 30, Larissa Spring 1995.

The first death II-III, in "Ευθύνη" n. 284 Athens August 1995.

Page 9 (1986) and 11,13 (1989) in "il Portolano" n. 4 October-December 1995, Florence, Italy. Italian translation by Dr. Emanuela Perrone.

Some more information:

Guest of the 3rd Art Symposium of St. Georgen am Langsee, Karnten, Austria, October 1993.

Guest International Poet of the international poetry festival Poetryfest 98. Aberystwyth, Wales, 9-12 July 1998.

Course leader and tutor of various poetry workshops/creative writing sessions

E v e n t s / P e r f o r m a n c e s

Launch-presentation of The first death by the Foundation for Hellenic Culture and the Austrian Cultural Institute, London, 11 October 1996

Νyctivoe illustrated by Joanna Delfino. Exhibition at City and Guilds of London Art School, June 1996

Nyctivoe, 1st Act, performed at the October Gallery, in collaboration with De Nova Da Capo Records and the Foundation for Hellenic Culture (15 May 1997).

Presentation of "The First Death", at Ateneo Veneto, Venice in collaboration with the Austrian Consulate and the Institute of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Studies (28 October 1997).

Nyctivoe, 1st Act, performed at the Andipa Gallery in the context of the festival Greece in Britain, under the auspices of the Greek Embassy in London (28 May 1998).

A conference on The first death, at the University of Trieste. Under the auspices of the Greek Consulate in Trieste. 20 March 2000 Trieste, Italy.

Launch - presentation of The First Death published in English. Pataki Publishers' bookshop, Athens 21 April 2000.

Launch - presentation of The First Death (English). Organised by the Greek Embassy in London, 3 July 2000.

Launch - presentation of The First Death (English), organised by the Austrian Cultural Institute, London, 7 November 2000.

A lecture on translating poetry (MA Seminar). With Tassos Denegris. University of Nottingham-Trent, 19 March 2001.

The First Death (poetry reading). Compendium bookstore, Athens, 26 April 2001.

A lecture on poetry as communication. University of Trieste, 18 May 2001.

Launch of Poena Damni - Nyctivoe (Greek - German edition) at the 53. Frankfurt Buchmesse, 11 October 2001.

Nyctivoe - The London launch. 25 February 2002, The Andipa Gallery, London.

The First Death. A reading at the Tate Library. 7 June 2002

A. A. Psilogiannopoulos. Poena Damni - Επίμετρο (An introduction to Poena Damni). Athens 1996.
Dr. E. Doukas. Unegg's masks in the context of Lyacos's poetry. Odos Panos, September - December 1997, Athens.
Prof. B. Rosada. On the First Death. Characteristics of Dimitris Lyacos' poetry. Shoestring Press 2000.
Jena Woodhouse. Lyacos: "A feast of all fruits". International Herald Tribune / Kathimerini, 4 May 2000.
Jena Woodhouse. Staving off the extinction of contemporary English poetry, International Herald Tribune / Kathimerini, 20 April 2000.
Robert Zaller. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, John Hopkins University Press, Volume 19, October 2001, pp. 283-286

Dimitris Lyacos was born in 1966 in Athens, Greece. He studied Law at the University of Athens and Philosophy at UCL. He lives in London.