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Taking Mesopotamia (Oxford Poets)

Taking Mesopotamia (Oxford Poets)

by JennyLewis (Author)

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    Illustrated 2014

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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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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 96
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: OxfordPoets
Published: 30 Mar 2014
ISBN 10: 1906188114
ISBN 13: 9781906188115

Media Reviews
'Taking Mesopotamia is a truly memorable piece of work. Lewis is an acutely attentive observer, but this is more than a poetic documentary - it lives as much in the ear as in the imagination, so well acoustically arranged that we cannot forget any of the voices in it.' --Jane Draycott 'Taking Mesopotamia - a brilliantly ironic title for our times - controls its anger through an accomplished and flexible technique in verse and prose. It is [ - ] an eloquent rejoinder to those who say poetry can't, or shouldn't, concern itself with public matters.' --Bernard O'Donoghue
Author Bio
Jenny Lewis trained as a painter before reading English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and gaining an M.Phil in Poetry from the University of Glamorgan. She has been a singer-songwriter, an advertising copywriter, a children's author, playwright and screenwriter, a teacher and a civil servant, and she has also worked for the Commission for Equality and Human Rights. Lewis currently lives in Oxford, where she teaches poetry at Oxford University. She is also a Writing Tutor at Pegasus Theatre, Oxford, working with the Youth Theatre Companies. Her next collection, Taking Mesopotamia, is forthcoming in March 2014.