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selected by Carol Ann Duffy for the Poetry Business Laureate’s Choice and awarded the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice
poems move out to make connections with the remembered and known life of a father who died too soon
Packed with fierce poetry
the father
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 selected by Carol Ann DuffyShortlisted 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
