“’Diving into the Wreck’: The Antikythera Mechanism, Lord Byron’s Last Days, Tear Gas in the Lyceum”: a Poetry Reading
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Presented By
The Gennadius Library
Speaker(s)
Douglas Burnet Smith, Poet & Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Location
ASCSA, Cotsen Hall, 9 Anapiron Polemou, 106 76 AthensContact
210-72.10.536 (ext. 301)
Douglas Smith is a Canadian poet and professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the award-winning author of 16 books of poetry. Last year Dr. Smith conducted research on Lord Byron in the Gennadius Library.
He will read from his ongoing projects about both these subjects, as well as from other poems set against “the crisis” in Athens and various other locations in Greece.
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