Comme des lions de pierre à l’entrée de la nuit, by Olivier Zuchuat

Between 1947 and 1951, the Greek government interned nearly 80,000 people on the desert island of Makronissos for “communist acts”. To resist the attempts at “mental reprogramming”, intense poetic activity developed in the camp, encouraged by the poet Yannis Ritsos, who forced himself to write poems every day – on cigarette packets or pieces of cardboard – which he then buried in bottles.