Publisher's Synopsis
 
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.
 
Harvill Secker; 2013. First edition. With unclipped dust cover. Book and cover in excellent condition. Poems in memory of Constantinos Cavafis. Illustrated by Donald Sammut. Pre-owned. ISBN: 9781846557439