A Boat to Lesbos and other poems by Nouri Al-Jarrah Judith Willson viewed from the stands

viewed from the stands

Packed with fierce poetry

/ The beach shells and sound

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Desnos was a hugely influential figure across all art forms at the time

A Boat to Lesbos and other poems by Nouri Al-Jarrah Judith Willson viewed from the standsShortlisted 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