The Stone Serpent: Barates of Palmyra's Elegy for Regina his Beloved Format:Paperback

The Stone Serpent: Barates of Palmyra's Elegy for Regina his Beloved Format:PaperbackSyrian 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

As the seat of the Archbishop of Wales

vulnerable

They are depicted in solitary glory on a page

or just have a feeling there’s more to life than what you’ve got now

she begins to have strange premonitions of what will be done to her body

Petiot is at its centre

a Beullah Rose Poetry Prize

and the perfect

Skinner's language is accessible but crackles with apt surprise

When the banquet is over

bring to view work that ought to be taken far more seriously

‘the man-made’ and ‘the natural’