TY  - BOOK
AU  - Louis de Bernieres
TI  - Imagining Alexandria: Poems in Memory of C.P. Cavafy
SN  - 9781846557439
U1  - 821.914 LOU 
PY  - 0000///15/082013///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Vintage
KW  - Poetry by individual poets
N1  - Poetry by individual poets; General (US: Trade)
N2  - "Poetry was Louis de Bernieres' first literary love and Imagining Alexandria is his debut poetry collection. Here the author of the much-loved Captain Corelli's Mandolin returns us to the vivid Mediterranean landscape of his fiction. De Bernieres was introduced to Greek poetry while in Corfu in 1983, and since then he has always travelled with a book of Cavafy's poetry in his pocket. Not surprisingly, his own poems about the distant past, the erotic and the philosophical owe much to the influence of the great Alexandrian poet. Beautifully illustrated with line drawings by Donald Sammut, this is a collection rich in sensuality, nostalgia, and music."
UR  - "Louis de Bernieres is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His most recent books are Birds Without Wings and A Partisan's Daughter and a collection of stories, Notwithstanding. Donald Sammut is a hand surgeon, anatomist and illustrator based in Bath."
ER  -