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Anghelaki-Rooke, Katerina, The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems, ed. Karen Van Dyck, Anvil, 2008; Graywolf, 2009.

Bien, Peter, Constantine, Peter, Keeley, Edmund  and Van Dyck, Karen, eds., A Century of Greek Poetry 1900–2000, Bilingual Edition. River Vale NJ: Cosmos Publishing, 2004.

Baras, Alexandros, The Yellow House and Other Poems, 1933-1973, trans. Yannis Goumas. Winchester [Eng]: Green Horse, 1974.

Capetanakis, Demetrios, A Greek Poet in England, ed. John Lehmann, London: Billing and Sons, 1947.

Cavafy, C.P., The Canon: The Original One Hundred and Fifty-Four Poems, trans. Stratis Haviaras, Athens: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2007.

––, Collected Poems, rev. edn, ed. George Savidis, trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.

––, Poems, trans. John Mavrogordato, London: Chatto and Windus, 1951.

––, “Ithaca”, The Criterion, II/8 (July 1924), 431-32.

Chiotis, Theodoros, ed., Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis, London: Penned in the Margins, 2015.

Christianopoulos, Dinos, The Naked Piazza/Νεκρή Πιάτσα, Bilingual ed., trans. Nicholas Kostis, Paiania: Bilieto publications, 2000.

––, The Poetry of Dinos Christianopoulos: An Introduction, trans. Kimon Friar, New York: Pella Publishing, 1979.

Chronas, Yorgos, 99 Poems, trans. Yannis Goumas, Athens: Odos Panos, 1999.

Constantine, Peter, ed, The Greek poets: Homer to the present, New York: W. W. Norton, 2010.

Dalven, Rae, ed., Daughters of Sappho: Contemporary Greek Women Poets, Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994.

Elytis, Oddyseus, The Collected Poems, Revised and Expanded Edition [1997], trans. Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris, Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

––, Journal of an Unseen April, trans. David Connolly, Athens: Ypsilon, 1998.

Fokas, Nikos, The Known: Selected Poems, 1981-2000, trans. Don Schofield, Athens: Ypsilon, 2010.

Fourtouni, Eleni, ed., Contemporary Greek Women Poets, New Haven, Conn.: Thelfhini Press, 1978.

Friar, Kimon, trans., From Cavafis to Elytis. Translation and notes, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973.

Friar, Kimon, trans., ‘Eighteen Post-War Greek Poets‘, Chicago Review, Vol. 29, (August 1969).

Gatsos, Nikos, Amorgos, trans. Sally Purcell, London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1998.

Gogou, Katerina, Three Clicks Left, trans. Jack Hirchmann, San Franscisco: Night Horn Books, 1983.

Karyotakis, Kostas, Battered Guitars: Poems and Prose, trans. William W. Reader and Keith Taylor, Birmingham: Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, 2006.

Kavadias, Nikos, The Collected Poems, trans. Gail Holst-Warhaft, New Jersey: Cosmos Publishing, 2006.

––, Wireless Operator: Selected Poems & Three Stories, trans. Simon Darragh, London: London Magazine Editions, 1998.

Kazantzakis, Nikos, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, trans. Kimon Friar, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958; London: Secker and Warburg, 1958.

Keeley, Edmund and Sherrard, Philip, trans., A Greek Quintet: C. P. Cavafy, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Gatsos, George Seferis, Angelos Sikelianos, Limni Evia, Greece: Denise Harvey, 2000.

Kondos, Yannis, Absurd Athlete, trans. David Connolly, Arc Publishing, 2004.

––, The Bones: Selected Poems 1972-1982, trans. James Stone, 1986.

––, Danger in the Streets, trans. John Stathatos, 1979.

––, Mercurial Time, trans. Yannis Goumas, The Sceptre Press, 1978.

Leivaditis, Tasos, Violets for a Season,  trans. N.N. Trakakis, Northfield, MN: Red Dragonfly Press, 2017.

––, The Blind Man with the Lamp, trans. N.N. Trakakis, Limni Evia, Greece: Denise Harvey, 2014.

Manasiadis, Vana, ed. and trans., shipwrecks / shelters: six contemporary Greek poetsWellington, New Zealand: Seraph Press, 2016.

Palamas, Kostes, A Hundred Voices and Other Poems from the Second Part of Life Immovable, trans. Aristides E. Phoutrides, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921.

––, Life Immovable (First Part), trans. Aristides E. Phoutrides, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1919.

––, The Twelve Lays of the Gipsy, trans. George Thomson, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1969.

Modern Greek Writing: An Anthology in English Translation, London: Peter Owen Publishers, 2003.

Ritsos, Yannis, Petrified Time: Poems from Makronisos, trans. Martin McKinsey and Scott King, Northfield, MN: Red Dragonfly Press, 2014.

––, Diaries of Exile, trans. by Karen Emmerich and Edmund Keeley, Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2013.

––, Selected Poems, trans. Nikos Stangos, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.

––, Gestures and Other Poems, 1968-1970, trans. Nikos Stangos, London: Cape, Goliard, 1971.

Sachtouris, Miltos, Poems (1945-1971), trans. Karen Emmerich, Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2006.

––, With Face to the Wall: Selected Poems, trans. Kimon Friar, The Charioteer Press, 1968.

Seferis, George, A Levant Journal, trans. Roderick Beaton, Jerusalem: Ibis Editions, 2007.

––, A Poet’s Journal: Days of 1945–1951, trans. Athan Anagnostopoulos, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974.

––, Collected Poems 1924-1955, ed. and trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, London: Jonathan Cape, 1969.

––, The King of Asine and Other Poems, trans. Nanos Valaorities, Lawrence Durrell, Bernard Spencer, and George Katsimablis, London: Lehmann Ltd, 1948.

Sikelianos, Angelos, Selected Poems, Second Bilingual Edition, trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, Limni Evia, Greece: Denise Harvey, 1996.

Stangos, Nikos, Pure Reason, ed. David Plante, London: Thames & Hudson, 2007.

Stephanides, Theodore Ph. and George Katsimbalis, eds, Modern Greek Poems, London: Hassell Watson and Viney, 1926.

Trypanis, C.A., Greek poetry: from Homer to Seferis, London: Faber and Faber, 1981.

Vakalo, Eleni, Before Lyricism, trans. Karen Emmerich, Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017.

Van Dyck, Karen, ed., Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry, London: Penguin, 2016.

––, Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry Since 1967, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Vrettakos, Nikoforos, Selected Poems, trans. David Connolly, Athens: Aiora, 2015.

––, Thirty Years in the Rain: The Selected Poetry of Nikiforos Vrettakos, trans. Robert Zaller and Lili Bita, Boston, MA: Somerset Hall Press, 2005.