sailors on their night shift at the ship's bridge. Images from exotic places, prostitutes, captains gone mad and memories of the war blend together, to form a dreamy world of lucid forms, part fictional, part true. He is popular among Greeks and his best poems are taught at schools. He is considered by many to embody much of the "Greek soul" because of his romantic affiliation with the sea and its journeys and for his genuinely humane outlook. A selection of his poetry, with some of his shorter prose, translated into English by Simon Darragh, is available under the title Wireless Operator from the London Publisher Enitharmon. Set-to-Music Poems Since 1967, many of Kavvadias' poems have been incorporated in the music of other Greek artists. Though, in most cases it was one or two of his poems that were set to music and released alongside other artists' songs, there were some major exceptions that involved multiple of Kavvadias' poems. Panos Savvopoulos was the first artist to set Kavadias' poems to music when he released his disk Episode in 1971. His poem Mal du départ was set to music by Giannis Spanos and released in 1975. Thanos Mikroutsikos released his The Southern Cross album in 1979 where he set 11 of Kavvadias' poems to music, featuring other prominent Greek artists, such as Vasilis Papakonstantinou. The album was negatively received in the beginning. In 1986, record company Minos released the record Nikos Kavvadias, S/S Ionion set to music performed by Ilias Ariotis and Noti Chasapi. Thanos Mikroutsikos made a great comeback to the subject in 1991, when he released his record Lines of the Horizons which included a whopping 17 of Kavvadias' poems set to song. Though many of the songs were the same as in the 1979 album - only reperformed - the record was very well received. Some of the poems that have been set to music since 1967 are: 1979: Woman (Γυναίκα) 1979: Esmeralda (Εσμεράλδα) 1979: Cambay's water 1979: Federico Garcia Lorca 1979: Kuro Siwo 1984: Black and White 1986: Yara yara 1987: The Monkey (Η μαϊμού) 1989: Letter to a Poet (Γράμμα σ’ έναν ποιητή) 1992: A bord de l΄ aspasia Works Poetry 1933: Marabu (Μαραμπού, Marampou) 1947: Fog (Πούσι) 1975: Traverso (Τραβέρσο) 1975: Mal du départ (Ιδανικός Κι Ανάξιος Εραστής, Idanikós Ki Anáxios Erastís) 1979: Esmeralda (Εσμεράλδα) 1987: The Collected Poems of Nikos Kavadias, tr. G. Holst-Warhaft