The Strongbox by Sasha Dugdale #Sappho all previously published by Carcanet

all previously published by Carcanet

never mind the lavender-scented pillow

N and S America

and always surprising

Calgary Bay or his Bolton front room the poet confronts illness (his own)

The Strongbox by Sasha Dugdale #Sappho all previously published by CarcanetThe Strongbox opens with the abduction of a woman to a foreign land and ends with the Rape of Europa. Drawing in elements of Greek mythology, epic literature and recent history, this protean work gives shape to a cast of characters both ancient and modern, as they flit in and out of tales, their voices overlapping and interacting. An unnamed girl is persuaded to leave behind her country and her childhood and travel to a warzone. Helen of Sparta,