Seven poetry collections over a span of 34 years, from a distinct and distinguished poetic voice that has garnered praise from both the Municipality and the Sophists, according to poet and critic Kostas Koutsourelis.

He notes: "About a hundred years ago, Hugo von Hofmannsthal said that a creator needs two things. The first is to convince his peers and critics. The second is to reach the broad public. Michalis Ganas has long achieved both."

While he possesses a completely distinct language of his own, his art has not lost its vital connection to the common speech, to the vernacular. It has maintained its immediacy and high emotional warmth, remaining a familiar language.

If Ganas is today one of our most widely read poets, if his work is beloved even by people who generally do not read poetry or systematically avoid it, this is due to his expressive ways, his stance as a spiritual person, and the universal nature of his themes.

This reminds us that in its great moments, Greek poetry was simultaneously the art of the I and the We, of humanity and the natural world. And it shows us a way for it to leave behind the self-satisfied isolation of recent decades and return to where it belongs: to the State and the Marketplace.

- "Akathistos Dinner" (1978) - "Black Stones" (1980) - "Glass Ioannina" (1989) - "Paralogy" (1993) - "The Small Ones" (2000) - "The Sleep of the Smoker" (2003) - "Absinthe" (2012)