Galway poets Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars will take part in a Greek-Irish Literary Symposium at the Melina Merkouri Theatre, Ilion, Athens, tomorrow.
Also taking part are Greek poets Tassos Denegris, Nanos Valaoritis, and Dimitris Lyacos, and fellow Irish poet Patrick Chapman.
The symposium is sponsored by Culture Ireland, The Irish Embassy, Athens, and The Office of the Mayor of Ilion. The symposium will also see the publication of Literary Ways 2: Greece – Ireland, in which poems by the participating Greek poets will be translated into English and poems by the three participating Irish poets will be translated into Greek.
The poets will also read their work at the University of Athens at a reading organised by the Irish Embassy in Greece.
