Stowaway by Richard Gwyn The Language of Eldorado illuminating cycle focusing on a

illuminating cycle focusing on a single chicken – learn

in icy blasts of weather

this is a fine collection from a poet at the top of his game

Threaded through these are a series of pieces about the poet’s childhood on the north-east coast

all in Kayo's inimitable passion and style

Stowaway by Richard Gwyn The Language of Eldorado illuminating cycle focusing on aThis collection recounts a number of journeys that the stowaway of the title, a kind of anti Ulysses, takes around the eastern Mediterranean, journeys that transcend historical time and incorporate elements of the mythic and the magical, as well as actual historical phenomena, from the fall of Byzantium to the Syrian civil war and the emergence of Islamic State or Daish. Sometimes the speaker in the poems is the stowaway himself, sometimes his account