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Taking Mesopotamia

  • ISBN-13: 9781906188115
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: OXFORDPOETS
  • By Jenny Lewis
  • Price: AUD $24.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 20/06/2014
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 138.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 140g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Taking Mesopotamia was originally inspired by Jenny Lewiss search for her lost father - the young South Wales Borderer who fought in the ill-fated Mesopotamian campaign of World War I. Through reconstructed diary extracts, witness statements, formal poems and free verse, the book extends into a wider exploration of the recent Iraq wars. It also includes translations of a number of the poems into Arabic, and photographs taken by Lewiss father on campaign in 1916. Woven throughout the book is a strand inspired by The Epic of Gilgamesh, whose themes of hubris, abuse of power and fear of death show us how little the world has changed in four thousand years.

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