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I am based in Naarm/Melbourne. ​I write poetry, essays, articles and reviews. ​My poetry and prose have been published in numerous anthologies and literary journals. ​My essays, articles and reviews have been published in Australia, Greece and online.

 

 

 

I am based in Naarm/Melbourne.

 

I write poetry, essays, articles and reviews.

 

My poetry and prose have been published several anthologies and literary journal. My essays, articles and reviews have been published in Australia, Greece and online. 


In 1996, I won second prize in the Poetry Section of the Greek Australian Cultural League Literary Competition and in 2003, one of my poems was Highly Commended in the Daffodil Day Arts Awards.


I was one of the founding members of Διφωνιες (Difonies) Journal of Greek Australian Thought.


I have collaborated with visual artists and film makers on cross-art projects, advised on scripts for numerous films in development and established and facilitated poetry workshop groups.


I was employed in arts management, developing and managing public art projects, co-ordinating and curating art exhibitions and working with migrant and refugee communities on arts and cultural projects.


I have been involved in community television, researching and presenting programmes focused on the arts and in community radio, producing and broadcasting  programmes in the Greek language

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Vicky Tsaconas

Poetry


 
You can read some of my poems here


Persephone in between

words fly out

the page












Photo by Vicky Tsaconas


Other published poems

 
https://liveencounters.net/16th-anniversary-editions-2025/vicky-tsaconas-the-page/
 

https:rochfordstreetreview.com/2021/12/14/vicky-tsaconas-six-poems/

 
https://australianmultilingualwriting.org/writing/vicky-tsaconas-at-the-end

 
http://styluslit.com/poetry/another-easter-another-journey-not-taken/

 
https://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2328/35353/rooted_in_rock.pdf;jsessionid=2EAA824B90F61172AF16E0B0C719517F?sequence=1
 

 








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My poems have also been published in:

Southern Sun, Aegean Light  – 
N. N. Trakakis (ed.)

&  –  Issue 14

Hobo  –  Issue 11

Australian Poetry Journal –  Volume 4, Issue 1

Azuria  –  #3 – 2013

Αντιποδες   –  No. 41-42, No. 65

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                                   Περσεφονη in between

 

                                   

                                    king of death, curly hair and eyes

                                    as black as salty olives,

                                    you abduct me at dawn

                                    when I am dreaming of carousels

                                    and strawberry ice cream,

                                    filch me away to the serrated tip

                                    of Πελοπονησο

                                    mummified home of my ancestors

 

                                    in your grotto tomb we celebrate

                                    our wedding – κολυβα chiffoned

                                    with icing sugar the colour of my dress

                                    and bejewelled with your gift, silver almond earrings,

                                    while my mother − saint’s relic head

                                    in arthritic rock hands

                                                threnodic

                                                     nine days

                                                            in acarpous garden

 

                                    you nurture me on pomegranate pearls

                                    of living flesh

                                    before I return to day

                                    when she plants cos lettuce,

                                    picks broad beans

                                    and wild artichokes for her only child

                                   

                                    as her basil sweetens the air

                                    I journey back to our peninsula cave

                                    we sup on liqueur decanted

                                    by νυχτολουλουδο and lap in tempo

                                   

 

                                        Περσεφονη – Persephone

                                                   Πελοπονησο – Peloponese

                                                   κολυβα – boiled wheat offered at funerals and memorial services

                                                   νυχτολουλουδο – night flower

 

 

                                     published in:  N. N. Trakakis (ed.), Southern Sun, Aegean Light                                                                  Poetry of Second-Generation Greek-Australians, Arcadia, 2011

words fly out:

bats       at dusk

in search of fruit

 

 

black       they  flutter

black    they return

 

 

                  published in: Australian Poetry Journal,

                          Vol. 4, Issue 1

           the page

                                               

                          after Letters to Amherst III  by Edmund de Waal, 2023 

           

           one

             translucent

                scrap

                    among many

                         in a room bare

                                       except for

                                                a desk       chair       books

 

             she hides it

               so it does not shatter

                writes silver words:

                  porcelain

                     in a vitrine

                        that hangs from the wall

                                              spiderly ridges

                                                                the only marks

 

                 away from the light

                   they are not visible

                    close-up – secrets

                     held by minute grains

                        specks of glass

                                       transformed 

 

                                                             to light, and then return

 

 

                                               

                      a version of this poem was published in: Live Encounters Poetry & Writing ,

                                16th Anniversary Edition 2025

Vicky Tsaconas

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My narrative non-fiction, articles and reviews have also been published in:
 

Mothers from the Edge  –  Helen Nickas (ed.)

ARTI

Prattle visual art forum

LIKE Art Magazine

Neos Kosmos English Weekly

Διφωνιες  Difonies
 
 
You can see some of my articles and essays published online at:
 
https://garlandmag.com/article/mojawharat/
 
https://garlandmag.com/article/hellenic-connections/
 
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/author/vicky-tsaconas/

Vicky Tsaconas

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I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the unceded land on which I am based – the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation – and pay my respects to their Elders past and present.

Vicky Tsaconas

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