Dimitris Tsaloumas: Contents page

Dimitris Tsaloumas (b.1921) was born on the Greek island of Leros in 1921. He grew up under the Italian occupation and later ran messages for the Greek resistance against the Germans. In 1952, persecuted for his political beliefs, he left Greece for Australia. After a decade and a half of silence he began publishing his poems again in Greek and then in 1988 brought out Falcon Drinking, his first book of poems written in English. He has published seven volumes of poetry in Australia, and since his retirement from teaching, he divides his time between Melbourne and Leros. He has received the National Book Council Award (1983) for The Observatory (trans. Philip Grundy), and the prestigious Patrick White Award (1994). His considerable international reputation in both languages continues to grow, most recently with the publication of his collected works by Shoestring Press in the UK.