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The Treat
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Land, tethered to the rocks
at the mercy of the beast.
What more sacrifices
does this downtrodden oracle require
for it to be saved
how many more lives must turn to stone
before the beast's hunger finds its end,
for the poor wretch to be saved
land, tethered to the rocks.
"I would have written down, if they were not already in the book, nine out of ten poems of this collection, which went up another step after the Kavafyian "first step" (her first poetry collection) and which consolidated my conviction that Zaloni will be our new Kiki Dimoula in a few years. Why? Because she already has her own linguistic stamp (or identity, if you prefer), with the difference that this identity is not plastic but steeped in the blood and beauty of herself and her generation." ~Vasilis Vasilikos, 2019'
ISBN : 978-1-80603-033-0
Scheduled: 13/08/2026
Pages : 50
Size : 205x140
Imprint : Olympia Publishers
Penelope Zaloni
Penelope Zaloni was born and raised in Athens, Greece. She is a graduate of Drama School and has worked with important theatre directors. Her poetry collection The Treat is the first collection she translated into English from Greek and was first published in Athens in 2020 by Vakxikon Publications. Previously, the collection The Alpha of Balsam was published in 2018 by Provocateur Publications. She has ten years of experience in translating books, poetry collections, plays and novels, which are available in all Greek bookstores.
