Publisher's Synopsis
The Sirocco Room is Jamie McKendrick's first book of poems. Born in Liverpool in 1955, he taught for several years in Italy, and is a translator from the Italian. He was the winner of the Eric Gregory Award for young poets in 1984, and several of his poems have been published in British literary magazines.;This collection of eloquent, witty, and crafted poems about topics ranging from exile to the state of the environment possesses an elegiac undertone that is surprising in a young writer.
