Stowaway by Richard Gwyn David Constantine From Scottish independence to the

From Scottish independence to the “war on terror” via turbo-capitalist greed

as well as opera-singing Alsatians

Cliff Hammett

“Amen to Butterflies”

working class and immigrant lives

Stowaway by Richard Gwyn David Constantine From Scottish independence to theThis collection recounts a number of journeys that the stowaway of the title, a kind of anti Ulysses, takes around the eastern Mediterranean, journeys that transcend historical time and incorporate elements of the mythic and the magical, as well as actual historical phenomena, from the fall of Byzantium to the Syrian civil war and the emergence of Islamic State or Daish. Sometimes the speaker in the poems is the stowaway himself, sometimes his account