Imagining Alexandria
  • Published: 2 September 2013
  • ISBN: 9781846557439
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $37.99
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Imagining Alexandria

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A gift book of poems from author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernières, beautifully illustrated with line drawings

Poetry was Louis de Bernières’ 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 Bernières 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.
  • Published: 2 September 2013
  • ISBN: 9781846557439
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $37.99
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About the authors

Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over and The Dust That Falls From Dreams, the short story collection Labels and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.

portrait photo of Louis de Bernieres

Praise for Imagining Alexandria

Love dominates ... we are told the truth about love – even when it is awkward or lacking ... the rum enthusiasm fuelling this collection endears it to the reader

Kate Kellaway, Guardian

Direct, evocative, erotic and tinged with sadness. What more should poetry be?

Telegraph

Delightful

Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday

Today the culture of Greece may be facing a new crisis, but many will welcome de Bernières’s revisiting of the "miracle period"

Margaret Reynold, The Times

De Bernieres captures with quiet assurance that Cavafy music of resigned, sensual sadness as lovers depart, gods retreat and dynasties collapse

Boyd Tonkin, Independent