N.N. (‘Nick’) Trakakis is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University, and also writes, edits and translates poetry. His publications in the area of philosophy include ‘The God Beyond Belief’ (Springer, 2007) and ‘The End of Philosophy of Religion’ (Continuum, 2008). In the area of poetry, he has edited ‘Southern Sun, Aegean Light: Poetry of Second-Generation Greek-Australians’ (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011); he has translated from the Greek Tasos Leivaditis’ ‘The Blind Man with the Lamp’ (Denise Harvey Publications, 2014); and he has published several collections of his own poetry, the most recent being ‘After Life’ (2016).