Call it oddity, call it fate, I happen to have lived what I lived and turned it into poetry. If I had not lived it and had still written it, then maybe I would have been a great poet. NIKOS KAVVADIAS, October 1974

NEW SIGNIFICANT ELEMENTS about Nikos Kavvadias are coming to light forty-four years after his death. Following years of research by journalist and scholar Michalis Geledakis, a volume is presented with unpublished and unarchived work, unknown interviews of the poet, his maritime file, the ships he traveled on, unpublished correspondence, rare testimonies, unpublished photographs, his relationship with George Seferis, and other findings with explanatory texts and comments.

This edition enriches and redefines the reading and study of the "Ideal and Undeserving Lover, of the distant seas and the blue points," who remains one of the most popular and widely read Greek poets.

The mysterious human-geographical world of Kolia, as his friends called him, becomes even more fascinating, with a constant backdrop of endless hours of solitude "on the back of the sea," where the only companion was the sound of Morse signals.

Biographical details of the volume's editor:

MICHALES GELEDAKIS was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1986. He studied Physics at the University of Athens and before completing his studies, he studied journalism. He served as editor-in-chief and director of the music magazine Diphon, program director of the radio station Diphon fm, and radio producer. He was an editor for the supplement "Library" of Eleftherotypia, music curator for the radio station Vima fm, as well as a collaborator in music magazines such as Pop & Rock, Oasis, Metronomos, etc. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the online music newspaper Musicpaper.gr. Mainly, Christos Theodorou and other composers have set his lyrics to music, while he has written texts for the musical-theatrical performance Secrets and the libretto for the musical adaptation of Lorca's work The Butterfly's Magic. His poems have been published in various literary magazines. This is his first book.