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“Creation is probably the last free castle for man to climb on and contemplate the future with optimism.”
It is not about something extraordinary
Giorgos Stavrakakis
In the over 3 years that Radio Art is operating, it was for me probably the greatest surprise, the acquaintance with the work of Giorgos Stavrakakis, a great poet and song writer from Crete, that for a few years now lives and works in Athens. When reading his poetry, it is easy to understand that Giorgos Stavrakakis is a perceptive observer of the social conditions, of the human relationships and an especially sensitive writer of life, who has the gift to transform his thoughts to wonderful poetry. He writes in a simple, original way, using beautiful words and focuses mainly on the erosion of our life that leads to solitude, to isolation… and to a life void of meaning. Although his themes are hard, he manages with his great talent and his special way of writing in mostly short poems to create a sweet feeling, communicating a touch that penetrates deeply our existence. Giorgos Stavrakakis’ poetry has the power to make us better people, since it activates in us small fires that lighten pieces of our mind and soul that we forget to visit. Giorgos Stavrakakis belongs to the few poets – song writers that give us hope with their work, since their work and their way of life remind us that soul and life itself should not be sold and bought and that the truth is never cruel, hard and unbearable is the lie. We welcome Giorgos Stavrakakis to Radio Art for this month not only as a guest but as a dear friend. We have asked from the poet to write a text especially for Radio Art, which is sited below. Moreover below are sited some journalists’ comments on G.S, some selected poems and a short cv of the poet. Part of George Stavrakakis music work will be played every Tuesday and Thursday 5-6 in the afternoon by both streams of our station (Greek and Jazz). In addition Poems of George Stavrakakis will be broadcasted during our programs read by himself and R.V with music background selected by Radio Art. The poems have been recorded in the Radio Art's Studio. I would like to thank George Stavrakakis for his excellent co-operation.
Up with the word! P. Prevelakis
There are encounters in this life which are something more than a mere coexistence of love, something more than an open window in the darkness of the soul. In these encounters you refuse to talk and to be talked to in a common language. You have in a way admitted to a perversion, because in reality the encounter and the relationship with poetry is above all both a pleasure and an accelerator for the approaching of life and its values; but above all is a divine way to answer to primeval questions that torment people. The poet keeps well hidden the “secrets” of this relationship, since he knows that it’s about ideals that have been granted and that he himself is not the primal creator. He is not willing to abrogate these rights, but to bring them out and defend them. Poetry on the other hand, cannot be and is not a common ground for all people. They inhabit it only those who understand that language is not totally innocent and that the words in themselves are not poems. Those who understand that, must first of all build in themselves new worlds and along to build neighborhoods for the words to live in, so that each word is in need of the other word and they cannot live apart. Only in this way can the words become poems. Every transfer from this place is a singular death, so sad as the death of people, whereas in the neighborhoods of poetry the words love, breathe and shine forever. Giorgos Stavrakakis
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Said about Giorgos Stavrakakis: “I think that George takes you to an attractive journey, a journey either of the black and white innocence or to games of realism, suitable only for adults. He is one of the few left who insists on wondering – he hands us over his very personal style with honesty….beautifully, but darkly, narratively as far as the silences are reflected to the secrets that we all share in one way or another.” N. Katsama “Sensitive, fair spoken using clear-cut words in his every verse; he takes us by the hand, still young in the age of his poetic speech, to walk with him towards the future. It’s the curse of the poet to always see the future in a predictive way.” K. Ar. Ailios “Verses that are an outcome of his wondering, where statues and framed ideas do not fit. His words naked and true manage to reach that territory where love and the whispers of the heart follow only the traces of the feelings. They are indifferent of the needs and of considerations and they build their own worlds, made of words which have seized to move. My moments, your moments, that we left them slip away without understanding that they have touched us. Giorgos Stavrakakis kept them, broken pieces of our reflected world and he hands them over to us transformed to pure speech, his poetry.” Nikos Gigourtakis “In a broken world where its pieces crack the hope, the dream comes like a midnight whisper of angels to give a fresh breath to life recomposing beauty and magic in the lyricism of personal moments that last… This rush of events and its speed, which establishes them as dust devil in the human soul and “struggles” it…..gives birth to the need for Stavrakakis to create cracks, to feel the perspective of the human dimension through time, since the sense of the lost social collectivity lies under.” Panagiotis Georgoudis
Answer to a letter (from “The room” 1981) To cry
Midday’s Dream (from “Cheap hotels” 1998-2004) When the radios went silent When the radios went silent
Technocrats (from “Cheap hotels” 1998-2004)
They should have already realized it ΙΙ and after they built bridges on a raft exhausted
Think (from “Oinomageireia” 2006) Think,
You waved goodbye to your small window
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George Stavrakakis - Short CV George Stavrakakis was born in Crete, where he lived until 1996. In the last years he lives and works in Athens. At a young age, he began to perform playing his guitar in small music halls in Crete singing Greek ballads, while at that time his first poetic collection with the title “The room” was published. He returned to Greece in 1987 and at the Heraklion of Crete he performed in various shows singing, but also by organizing poetic nights. He wrote regularly in the local newspapers, commenting on the cultural events of Heraklion, while he cooperated with ERA as a music producer. In July 2002 his new record with the title “Wings of Glass” is published by Wave Music.
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