"I need to write to understand my interiority" - Anthony Anaxagorou on Heritage Aesthetics

Update: 2022-11-14

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In this episode, I am joined by Anthony Anaxagorou to celebrate the release of his new poetry collection, Heritage Aesthetics. Engaged with the complexities of Cyprus and the diasporic experience, these poems map both an island's public history alongside a person's private reckoning. Anthony tells me how he needs to write to understand himself, why we shouldn't be looking to poetry for answers and why Cypriots are both fascinated and obsessed with race. We also discuss the complexities of Cypriot identity and how honouring the Cypriot dialect is one of the most powerful ways to preserve Cypriot heritage. Heritage Aesthetics is OUT NOW.

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"I need to write to understand my interiority" - Anthony Anaxagorou on Heritage Aesthetics

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"I need to write to understand my interiority" - Anthony Anaxagorou on Heritage Aesthetics

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"I need to write to understand my interiority" - Anthony Anaxagorou on Heritage Aesthetics