to Athens during the height of the Greek debt crisis and Kiev in the wake of the Maidan Revolution
History washes over and washes up on the strand of this Welsh book
 The Poem and the Journey
ancient Egypt and the Wild West
” Don’t Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection
Poems by Henri Alain-Fournier, trans. Costello, Howell & Marsh Criticism to Athens during the heightAlain Fourniers poems, while relatively few, are one of the small pearls washed up in the maelstrom of early twentieth century France. Best known for his novel Le Grand Meaulnes, a posthumous classic, Alain Fournier was killed in battle in 1914. His poems suspend a pre war French idyll of warm evenings and rained on orchards, silk banded straw hats, lamp lit farmhouses and young love reaching out in the frightening dark, with timid fingers. His lines