A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for These Times by Divers Hands Eugene O'Connell

A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for These Times by Divers Hands Eugene O'ConnellTwo hundred years after Byron turned his back on the hypocrisy and cant of his native England, fifteen contemporary poets pay homage to Byrons greatest satirical creation by writing a new Don Juan for our own age of cant. A Modern Don Juan follows the sexual adventures of Byrons picaresque anti hero in the twenty first century. Mixing Low Comedy and High Seriousness, the book follows night club DJ and picaresque anti hero Donald Johnson as he stumbles

the land and the culture

Translated by Lakshmi Holmström

Lilo’s voyage is at the heart of a narrative which extends across hundreds of years

At the story’s heart are the headstrong Angel and her mother

and one practised by my father and mother

"John Walsh’s quizzical observer

Fawzi Karim Selected Poems

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showing why he is considered one of British poetry’s most arresting and pioneering spirits

to a hatred of war

and her fluidity of meaning

whose members performed in the UK in 2009