Dimitra Aggelou (Athens, 1984) studied biology at the University of Athens. She has published the following poetry collections: Στάζουν Μεσάνυχτα [Dripping Midnight] (Melani, 2013), for which she won Maria Polydouri award, Χέρια Παλίρροιας [Hands of the Tide] [Gavriilidis, 2015), Σπασμένα Άλογα [Broken Horses] (Gavriilidis, 2017) and Ημερολόγια Μελισσιού [Diaries of a Beehive] (Smili, 2020).
Dimitra Aggelou spoke to Reading Greece* about her latest poetry collection Diaries of a Beehive, “a collage of diary-like confessions, thoughts, images, feelings”, written in “an intensely associative rhythm”, commenting that recurrent themes and axes in her writings are “a thirst for life, and simultaneously a kind of exhaustion stemming from life, as well as childhood and death”. She also explained that “language constitutes the primary device, the impetus, the music that urges”, and noted that in her poems, she attempts to “absorb the stimuli of a world that seems raw and violent and to define this world anew”.
