John Taylor

Veroniki Dalakoura is considered one of the leading Greek poets of her generation. She was born in 1952 in Athens, where she still lives. Dalakoura is also active as a literary critic, reviewing books in the leading Greek newspapers and journals, and has translated a number of Spanish, English-language, and especially classic French writers and poets into Greek, including Rimbaud, Flaubert, Stendhal, Balzac, Baudelaire, and Desnos. Her most recent book of poetry is Efrosyni, published in 2024 by Koukkida Editions. A vast representative selection of her work has been published in John Taylor’s translation: Bird Shadows: Selected Poems and Poetic Prose 1967-2020 (Diálogos Books, 2024).