Nikos Kavvadias, Greek sailor and poet (born 1910)

Nikos Kavvadias

Greek poet (1910–1975)

Nikos Kavvadias was a Greek poet, writer and a sailor by profession. He used his travels around the world, the life at sea and its adventures, as powerful metaphors for the escape of ordinary people, outside the boundaries of reality. His poems are widely regarded as belonging…