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Taking Mesopotamia, Paperback / softback Book

Taking Mesopotamia Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Taking Mesopotamia was originally inspired by Jenny Lewis's search for her lost father - the young South Wales Borderer who fought in the ill-fated Mesopotamian campaign of World War I.

Through reconstructed diary extracts, witness statements, formal poems and free verse, the book extends into a wider exploration of the recent Iraq wars.

It also includes translations of a number of the poems into Arabic, and photographs taken by Lewis's father on campaign in 1916.

Woven throughout the book is a strand inspired by The Epic of Gilgamesh, whose themes of hubris, abuse of power and fear of death show us how little the world has changed in four thousand years.

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