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taking us to Japan
Packed with fierce poetry
has asked the poets themselves to make a choice from their own work for the anthology
poems move out to make connections with the remembered and known life of a father who died too soon
Janet Lees
A Boat to Lesbos and other poems by Nouri Al-Jarrah Judith Willson taking us to JapanShortlisted for the inaugural Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation A Boat to Lesbos is a powerful and compelling epic poem, written while thousands of Syrian refugees were enduring frightening journeys across the Mediterranean before arriving on the small island. Set out like a Greek tragedy, it is passionate and dramatic witness to the horrors and ravages suffered by Syrian families forced to flee their destroyed country, seen through the
