Stowaway by Richard Gwyn The Language of Eldorado desperately trying to get beyond

desperately trying to get beyond appetite

Like the image on the cover

illuminating cycle focusing on a single chicken – learn

while the collection ends with a more grounded sequence

Stowaway by Richard Gwyn The Language of Eldorado desperately trying to get beyondThis collection recounts a number of journeys that the stowaway of the title, a kind of anti Ulysses, takes around the eastern Mediterranean, journeys that transcend historical time and incorporate elements of the mythic and the magical, as well as actual historical phenomena, from the fall of Byzantium to the Syrian civil war and the emergence of Islamic State or Daish. Sometimes the speaker in the poems is the stowaway himself, sometimes his account