C.P. Cavafy: Poetry C.P. Cavafy

In film

• Scottish-songwriter Donovan featured one of Cavafy's poems in his 1970 film There is an Ocean.
• Cavafy, originally titled Kavafis,[25] is a 1996 award-winning film directed by Yannis Smaragdis based on the life of the poet, starring Dimitris Katalifos and with music by Vangelis.[26]
• Greek director Stelios Haralambopoulos's 2006 documentary The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy imagined Cavafy met with Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa on a transatlantic ocean liner.[27]

Literature

• C. P. Cavafy appears as a character in the Alexandria Quartet of Lawrence Durrell.
• The American poet Mark Doty's book My Alexandria uses the place and imagery of Cavafy to create a comparable contemporary landscape.
• The Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, in an extended essay published in The New York Times, writes about how Cavafy's poetry, particularly his poem "The City", has changed the way Pamuk looks at, and thinks about, the city of Istanbul, a city that remains central to Pamuk's own writing.[28]

Songs

• The Weddings Parties Anything song "The Afternoon Sun" is based on the Cavafy poem of the same title.
• The Canadian poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen transformed Cavafy's poem "The God Abandons Antony", based on Mark Antony's loss of the city of Alexandria and his empire, into "Alexandra Leaving", a song around lost love.[29]

Other references

• Frank H. T. Rhodes' last commencement speech given at Cornell University in 1995 was based on Cavafy's poem "Ithaca".[30]