During the 1990s, I read with horrified fascination the newspaper accounts of the protracted break-up of Yugoslavia and the accompanying carnage which enveloped the region. As soon as trains began running through the region again, my partner and I made several trips around and through Slovenia and Croatia, observing how travel throughout the area was becoming more and more practical.
I began writing theis collection of poems on these trips, also during a holioday in southern France, and put them into their current form back hom,e in London. The structure of the current collection evokes our journeys and dreams a little about possible future ones. I hope to add further pieces to this collection in the future.
Read Illyria
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