A Boat to Lesbos James Liddy the like of which you

the like of which you might see a dozen times in the Rijksmuseum

Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942) spent his childhood and youth at Whitchurch near Ross-on-Wye

and at the Horniman Museum

of a city overcome by an epidemic of weeping

scant noons and jive cadets

A Boat to Lesbos James Liddy the like of which youShortlisted for the inaugural Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation A Boat to Lesbos is a powerful and compelling epic poem, written while thousands of Syrian refugees were enduring frightening journeys across the Mediterranean before arriving on the small island. Set out like a Greek tragedy, it is passionate and dramatic witness to the horrors and ravages suffered by Syrian families forced to flee their destroyed country, seen through the