These poems explore themes of love, human vulnerability, and the complex intersections between emotional and physical conflict in the socio-political sphere.
The project is part of the subthemes Re-imagining identity through poetry, Healing Narratives - Poetry, Mental Health and Collective Trauma.
Author
Yorgos Samoilis
Dr. Yorgos Samoilis, originally from Greece, is a psychologist and university lecturer based in London. His literary career began with the publication of his debut novel by IntoBooks (Athens) in 2011. In 2018, he followed with a collection of psychotherapeutic short stories published by Odos Panos (Athens). His first poetry collection The Place Without Darkness was released in 2020, and his prose has been featured in the literary magazine Odos Panos. In 2021, he received the Finalist and Honourable Mention Poetry Award from Società Dante Alighieri in Rome. His second poetry collection, The Leaves (and Letters), was published in 2023 by Thraka Publications in Larissa,Greece. In 2025, he contributed to Versopolis’s Poetry Expo 25 with the works Potentialities of Love and Normalcy.
