Stowaway by Richard Gwyn The Language of Eldorado all in Kayo's inimitable passion

all in Kayo's inimitable passion and style

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

beauty and death

Like the image on the cover

in icy blasts of weather

Stowaway by Richard Gwyn The Language of Eldorado all in Kayo's inimitable passionThis 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