Hypocrisy Has a Face is a record of Kafiris’ exploration into the cosmopolitan city of Athens.

These powerful poems explore how the political landscape of a city can impact our existence whilst constantly inspiring the reinvention of our identity. Hypocrisy Has a Face shows the resilience of the citizen in times of personal conflict and crisis. 

Motivated by a desperate desire to understand the cosmopolitan city of Athens where her ancestors once roamed, Dina Kafiris found herself on a journey to discover the true meaning of what it means to be an Athenian. As Kafiris struggled to integrate into the new society she was now living in, she jotted- down poems and notes that acted as a memoir. Hypocrisy has a Face emerged as a response to her environment and the events that overshadowed the country at the time of writing, establishing a realistic image of Athenian life in the first decade of the 21st century, breaking down stereotypes and offering an intimate knowledge of the city and its people. These powerful poems explore how the political landscape of a city can impact our existence whilst constantly inspiring the reinvention of our identity and show the resilience of the citizen in times of personal conflict and crisis.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Sydney in 1969, of Greek parents, Dina Kafiris entered the literary scene aged seventeen following the publication of her first poem. Her poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in literary magazines and she was a regular member of and collaborator with the Corais group of the Greek literary review Nea Synteleia, under the poet Nanos Valaoritis. Her debut poetry chapbook, The Blinding Light Circling Elpida, in one act, was published by Original Plus in 2014 and is from her forthcoming trilogy 21st-century Modern Greece: The First Decade. Dina Kafiris lives in north London.

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