... begin with, Loukakis focuses his short story on an intermediate stop within the young priest's journey to becoming appointed to a Greek church in an Australian community. The reader is introduced to the priest, Dimitris soon after his arrival to Australia from Greece, hence, the text can be seen as conveying 'the immigrant experience from a non-Anglosaxon origin' as quoted from the newspaper article, 'The Migrant Experience, Boldly Honest' (Courier Mail- 19/12/1981). This certain quality of the text provides a direct link to Skrzynecki's poems, which also tell of the immigrant experience as the Polish migrants travel to Australia, and attempt to settle into Australian society. Since Skrzynecki's poems are listed as the prescribed texts for the Area of Study - Journey [Physical], it follows that Angelo Loukakis' 'For the Patriarch' is also very suitable for use as a text for journeys as it is similar to the poems in ...

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