The more or less undying fascination with the poetry of Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), largely but hardly exclusively by the ...

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While he worked as a clerk in Alexandria, Egypt, Cavafy published verses intended for a small circle of admirers. Global fame ...

Cavafy began as a romantic poet, publishing poems that he later rejected — and rightly so, Roilos says, because they were indistinct from the mass of romantic poetry at the time.

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Julianne Moore Recites Cavafy 162 Years After His Birth – Video Laurie Anderson is among the renowned artists reciting lines from K.P. Cavafy.

Renzo Piano, the architect behind London’s Shard, New York’s Whitney Museum, and Paris’s Centre Pompidou, discusses the beauty of weightlessness.

A documentary from the Onassis Foundation that surveys the influence of poet C. P. Cavafy. To mark the 160th anniversary of C. P. Cavafy’s birth, the Onassis Foundation hosted a week-long ...

The opening lines of Constantine P. Cavafy’s 1911 poem, “ Ithaca ”, have served as inspiration to the 11 partner institutions, 1 working together since 2020 to create new inroads and access points for ...

Travellers to Alexandria in Egypt can visit the restored apartment of Constantine Cavafy, the favourite bard of Jackie Onassis.

As part of the 2025 Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF), the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the Hellenic Foundation for Books and Culture, the Alexandria Branch of the Foundation ...