The Stone Serpent: Barates of Palmyra's Elegy for Regina his Beloved Helen Beer and the promptings of external

and the promptings of external phenomena to memory

would have flinched at - but the political incorrectness of some of the views expressed goes along with a refreshing curiosity about Trinidadian society which is always

christened Lord Kitchener

eventually receiving a large financial compensation in 2006

Following the multi-award-winning What I Learned From Johnny Bevan

The Stone Serpent: Barates of Palmyra's Elegy for Regina his Beloved Helen Beer and the promptings of externalSyrian poet Nouri al Jarrah brings to life a story that can never again be lost in time after a single line in Aramaic on a tombstone fired his imagination. This inspiring epic poem awakens two extraordinary lovers, Barates, a Syrian from Palmyra, and Regina, the Celtic slave he freed and married, from where they have lain at rest beside Hadrians Wall for eighteen centuries, and tells their unique story. Barates elegy to his beloved wife, who died