
Nifitsa
Eleni Philippou(Author)
Broken Sleep Books (Publisher)
Published on 31. December 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
50 pages
978-1-917617-52-9 (ISBN)
Description
Nifitsa by Eleni Philippou is a richly textured, bilingual meditation on love, departure and political inheritance, moving through the topographies of Greece with lyric intensity and intellectual depth. Drawing on modern Greek folklore, personal memory, and contemporary protest, the poems shift between the intimate and the historical, often locating eros and estrangement within landscapes of ruin and beauty. Weasels, street dogs, ancient coastlines and revolutionary ghosts haunt the margins, while themes of metamorphosis, translation and absence give shape to the collection's three-part arc. The result is a deeply sensuous and formally controlled work, both elegy and invocation, grounded in the elemental and the felt.
More details
Language
English
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
66 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-917617-52-9 (9781917617529)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Eleni Philippou is a Greek-South African poet and academic based in the United Kingdom. Her award-winning poems have been published in a number of international magazines and anthologies, and have been translated into German and Polish.