a series of 5 poems that are a direct response to civil disobedience. Extracts from a large body of work that is called ‘This City’ and based on methodologies and responses put together by diaspora, the poems attempt to consider the history of Athens alongside biographies of people and places that they encounter and are determined by them. As the historical accounts mainly deal with large populations, the poems that form ‘This City’ attempt to delineate from group histories and instead attempt to sketch a portrait of activity that exists in the margins, tracing its own historical horizon.

Currently, the complete collection of poems is 79 in number and is made up of three distinct parts, each interrelated, but separate. Common themes carry over the three parts, and the separation of groups of poems allows a poetic sequence to exist that mirrors life in sections: incomplete, in progress and fragmented. The poems are fragments of sorts, textual variables in a constant state of variation, much like citations, or the ruins that surround Athens and the life that unfolds in its centre. The three sections that make up the poetry collection are roughly divided by decades and follow historical and socio-economic circumstances that reveal a place and lives that are caught between a solidified past and an uncertain future.