Stowaway by Richard Gwyn David Constantine The poems have all the

The poems have all the freshness of thinking aloud and demonstrate a wry wit that never conflicts with seriousness or humanity

as well as opera-singing Alsatians

together with an intelligence that is constantly sharpened by what it sees

from ties to lost campervans

Stowaway by Richard Gwyn David Constantine The poems have all theThis collection recounts a number of journeys that the stowaway of the title, a kind of anti Ulysses, takes around the eastern Mediterranean, journeys that transcend historical time and incorporate elements of the mythic and the magical, as well as actual historical phenomena, from the fall of Byzantium to the Syrian civil war and the emergence of Islamic State or Daish. Sometimes the speaker in the poems is the stowaway himself, sometimes his account