Mother of Battles

Written against the background of Operation Desert Storm, this sequence of poems, with author's notes, places the Gulf War in a wider historical and mythological context. The fate of present-day individuals caught up with the war acquires a powerful and moving resonance through the relationships drawn between them and the archetypal images of the literature and myths of the Middle East. This is a compelling and honest war poem, one of the most humane and devastating to be written from this harsh period of global change.

Paperback
50 pages
ISBN 0 946407 81 9
Published January 1991

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