TAKING MESOPOTAMIA by Jenny Lewis ( 9781906188115 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

TAKING MESOPOTAMIA

By:

Jenny Lewis

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Paperback

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1906188114

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9781906188115

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Publisher:

CARCANET PRESS LTD

Pub. date:

30 March, 2014

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A poet's search for her lost father links the Iraq War to its roots in a WW1 campaign.

Synopsis:

Taking Mesopotamia was originally inspired by Jenny Lewis's 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 Lewis's 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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black & white halftones

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OxfordPoets

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