Alex Kemp

Wrote a book about Greece...
a book on Britain, and other places, here...

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

@the_book_land @Ljiljana1972 https://t.co/ahdZPKaM9Q

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

Been reading Cavafy lately...
And I was struck by the similarities he shares with Larkin in many of his poems
(though not the big classical history ones, obviously)

For example... 👇

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

A book about a clockwise orbit around the coast, through the countryside and into the cities of England, Wales and Scotland.
A look at the country through Britishness AND Greek eyes...

It can be downloaded for free. Why not give it a go? What's to lose??
https://t.co/HMaeytv9oQ

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

Saw these two guys today.
Might start a project of taking photos of different birds in front of famous buildings.

Probably won't.

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

@alexsakalis Chapter 5 went on there...

https://t.co/GxaGasVtZk

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And here is Homer - recounting the Iliad while sat on his rock - which I just found, cast in marble and set into the walls of the UCL...

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

The rock of Homer in Chios.
Where the poet would sit and read his stories to the crowds.

Here I am, regaling all the fans and admirers of my book with a reading of a chapter from 'Here is Greece'...

[Finos Film @FinosFilm]

💫 Σήμερα στοχαζόμαστε με τον φιλόσοφο Θρασύβουλα, και θυμόμαστε τον τεράστιο Θανάση Βέγγο που έφυγε σαν σήμερα πριν 15 χρόνια.
#ΘανάσηςΒέγγος #Θρασύβουλας #Ατσίδας

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

Been reading Cavafy lately...
And I was struck by the similarities he shares with Larkin in many of his poems
(though not the big classical history ones, obviously)

For example... 👇

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

@gem_ste I always hope that the Beatles will come crashing through Marylebone Station as Billy waits for Liz....

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

It seems I didn't need to travel all the way to Troy.
I could have just stayed in a little patch of north London...

https://t.co/oAYHErhI0f

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

Odysseus's journey v my own

https://t.co/oAYHErhI0f

I have written about travelling to Troy (with Homer as a guide). Although mine was at the end of 10 years journeying, rather than the beginning.
Didn't come across a Cyclopes either.

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

@arisroussinos Ah. I was sure this was the bend next to Gastouri's Philharmonic hall.
I've been exiled from the island for only a few months - but already my memory is slipping!

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

@CorfuArts Did you see in the Guardian today...?

https://t.co/clqPqV4OK0

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

@DIAS Theophilos had a good go...

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

@nomadpossum Ah thank you! But three books - almost 300,000 words - I think that's enough for now!
https://t.co/0vhQtf2Vrx

And yes, unbelievably, I have left Greece. But I know I'll return.
Greece first gives you the journey, and then the pain. How can anyone stay away?

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

My final ever piece of writing - I promise!

I have written about the long journey I took from Corfu, sailing down the Ionian and then up again, through the Aegean Sea, stopping at the different islands along the way. To finally finish my travels in Troy.

https://t.co/oAYHErhI0f

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

And, finally, I reach Odysseus's Troy!

"I’ll tell you the tale of a monotropos man, driven to wander far and wide to reach the sacred citadel of Troy..."
https://t.co/oAYHErhI0f

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

Odysseus's journey v my own

https://t.co/oAYHErhI0f

I have written about travelling to Troy (with Homer as a guide). Although mine was at the end of 10 years journeying, rather than the beginning.
Didn't come across a Cyclopes either.

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

Philoctetes's cave, on Lemnos.
On the way to Troy, the fellas all stopped off to do a bit of hunting. Philocretes was bitten by a snake and his wound got so infected and smelly and offensive that the other men demanded that he be left right here...

https://t.co/oAYHErhI0f

[Alex Kemp @WorldofKemp]

Today marks 10 years since I first started my travels around Greece (and exactly 5 years since my book 'Here is Greece' came out)

I have written here about my very final journey. From my island, buffered and blown around the seas, to end in Troy...

https://t.co/oAYHErhI0f