Peter Polites maps war, migration, familial love and gay identity from mid-century Greece to western Sydney

By Anthony Macris, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney

A popular image of modern Greece is of glittering, blue seas dotted with islands of idyllic beauty. Another is of the ancient Acropolis towering above Athens, cradle of Western civilisation. But when I think of Greece, I also think of its violent and traumatic history, in particular the series of wars and conflicts throughout the first half of the 20th century that left the country in ruins.

In quick succession, events such as the Greek Genocide, the Asia…

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