Name: Author Talk – Into the Moonlit Village - The Battle of Crete
Start: 2024-07-15T11:00:00+10:00
End: 2024-07-15T12:00:00+10:00
Location: Frankston Library

$Author Talk \u2013 Into the Moonlit Village - The Battle of Crete$

Join the Poet and Artist behind Into the Moonlit Village- The Battle of Crete - a collaborative book of poetry and art.
About this Event

Join the Poet and Artist behind Into the Moonlit Village- The Battle of Crete - a collaborative book of poetry and art by Poli Tataraki (Sansey) and Frankston born and raised local, Michael Winters.

This presentation showcases how poetry and linocuts sensitively combine to convey how ANZAC soldiers and the local population grappled in Crete with the Nazi invasion and its aftermath. You will hear selected readings by the poet as you view projections of the corresponding linocut images.

Both poet and artist will also share their artistic journeys.

Experience strange phenomena co-existing in the ancient landscape of Crete, such as shepherds and paratroops, swastikas and Minoan frescoes. In this setting the exhausted and under-equipped Australian soldiers seem to be coming of age under the benign gaze of the Bull, transplanted into an ancient land to fight against a brutal and unprecedented cutting-edge technology. This presentation will give you an insight into how poetry and art can inform the mind as much as it can touch the human heart.

This is a FREE event however spaces are limited, please advise if you can no longer attend.