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    Taking Mesopotamia

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    ISBN: 9781906188115
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    AuthorLewis, Jenny
    Pub Date30/03/2014
    BindingPaperback
    Pages96
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    A poet's search for her lost father links the Iraq War to its roots in a WW1 campaign.

    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.