9-11 OCTOBER 2026
The Place in our Poetry (Lemesian Poets at the Nicosia Book Festival)
16:10
Discussion
Bibliotropist
Poets Marios Agathokleous, Doros Georgiou and poet Nena Filousi read
their poems and discuss with Katerina Voskaridou about the ways in which
whom the place is inscribed in their work.
CV
Marios Agathokleous was born in 1948 in Limassol. He worked for forty years as an observer of natural phenomena.
In the 1980s, together with Kostas Makridis and Christos Melidis, they published the literary magazine I AMAXA and founded and operated the cafe-theater TA PERIX.
In the 1990s he served as a member of the Board of Directors of E.TH.A.L. (Limassol Theatre Development Company).
In 2019, together with Babis Anagiotos, Kyriakos Anagiotos and Nena Filousi, they presented the poetic performance "4" as part of the theYard festival. Residency.19.
In 2019 and 2020, he collaborated with the MITOS Performing Arts Center, participating in the theatrical plays HOMERIAD by Dimitris Dimitriadis (as Homer) and ANTIGONE by Sophocles (as Tiresias).
He has published six poetry collections, the most recent being The Gate of Good Memories (Armida, 2023), as well as a critical study of the poetry of Pampis Anagiotou (Armida, 2026). In 2019, his collected works of poetry were translated into Bulgarian by Vasiliki Hatzipapa and published under the title Trojan Horse (Plamuk, Sofia).
Doros Georgiou was born in 1983 and hails from Limassol, Cyprus. He studied English Literature with a postgraduate degree in Special Education.
His first poetry collection, titled "UMAMI" (Technodromion Publications), was released in December 2020. It was translated into Serbian in 2023.
His second poetry collection, "Linguistics" (Technodromion Publications), was published in November 2022. In 2026, his third poetry collection ("Arnolossa") was published by Armoda Publications. His poems have been published on websites and literary magazines.
Biography of Nena Filousi
She was born in 1969 in Limassol. She has published four books of poetry, Memorioi (Iolkos 2002), Yolopipo Logariasamu (Biblioekdotiki 2008), Aktis (Aktis 2014), Somata Asfaleias (Kyma 2019) and two collections of short stories, Aš tropages kikon apapo (Parakentro 2010) and Frouta sto piato ki otras třiferótés (Bakkhikon 2022). Her texts can be found in twelve anthologies and her poems have been translated into English, German, Croatian, Persian, and Spanish.