A Boat to Lesbos Linda Lee Welch controlled gambling dens

controlled gambling dens

His poetry has been translated into Italian

by foot or by ferry

Extracts from Sherko Berkes’s The Valley of Butterfly

A Boat to Lesbos Linda Lee Welch controlled gambling densShortlisted 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