
Foreign Forays
Poems of Travel in Europe and the Med
Antony Johae(Author)
Mica Press
Published on 30. January 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
40 pages
978-1-869848-39-2 (ISBN)
Description
Foreign Forays starts with a little boy's Wanderlust and the adult traveller's contemplation of the journeys he has made. The first stop, Belgium - a drizzly day in Bruges and a dazzling day in Leuven. Then to Calais, words with a refugee and La Jungle. Along the coast to Britanny, the traveller wanders, and wonders. In Paris, Notre-Dame is on fire. In Prague, the saxophones are swinging and in Germany, the driver takes a wrong turning. Warsaw inspires - its museums, architecture and park of baths. In Rome, the traveller will not do as the Romans; three hours south, Sorrento burns. Cross the Med to a thrilling, shrilling wedding in Tunisia. From Essex, a flight to Lebanon with a spider. A pope travels the streets of Beirut, in cavalcade, on a hot September day and, finally, a passport official extends a witty welcome.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Colchester
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
103 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-869848-39-2 (9781869848392)
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Person
Antony Johae (b.1937, Chiswick) Ph.D. (thesis: a comparative study of Dostoevsky and Kafka) has taught literature at the University of Essex and in Ghana, Tunisia and Kuwait. In 2009, he retired to Lebanon (his wife's country of origin) and has since published four poetry collections. He currently divides his time between Colchester and Lebanon.