With the world turned upside down following the sudden death of a same sex partner, the poet works through the aftermath, negotiating the people and 'stuff' left behind, and transforming difficult lived experience by interrogating language as a means to process grief and loss, ultimately finding love, hope and catharsis.
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- 2023
- 2022
New Rome
- 464 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Three hundred action-packed years of Roman history, encompassing the fall of Rome and the rise of a new empire in the East.
- 2006
Byzantium's Balkan Frontier
- 364 pages
- 13 hours of reading
This is a narrative political history of the northern Balkans in the period 900-1204. It treats the Balkans as the frontier of the Byzantine empire, and considers imperial relations with the peoples living in the Balkans, including the Serbs, Croats, Bulgarians and Hungarians.