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Synopsis
So what did you do in Libya?” They’ll say On our return, the three of us – and George. “Did you ride camels on the dunes all day, And bivouac at night in some grey gorge? extract from Sahara Sahara is an account in verse of a journey by four intrepid travellers – including George – through the interior of Libya to Akakus, in search of ancient rock drawings. Skilfully composed stanzas combine traditional form with modern sensibility, literary allusion and descriptions of the Libyan desert in an absorbing fast-moving narrative. SAHARA has a scale and charm that could lead many to compare it with 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', yet it reads and feels like a very contemporary piece of verse, combining a controlled sentence structure with an underlying gentle and modern comic strand.' — Paul McDonagh: Echoes of Gilgamesh These poems are enhanced by the beautiful pen and ink drawings of Emily Johns whose work at the moment is touring in Wales. She is also the new editor of Peace News. Adrian Brown turned to writing satirical poetry and nonsense verse after he retired. He was Head of Television Drama at Channel 4, a script writer and director of many television programmes. He won an international Emmy in performing arts
A light and entertaining piece, by a skilful poet who knows how to enjoy the pleasures of exact rhyme and metre. There are some splendid comic rhymes, but for all its light touch the book points to a moral as serious as Shelley's Ozymandias.
Andy Croft
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