Your Turn To Speak by Lady Red Ego Adnan al Sayegh ‘A book that anyone seriously

‘A book that anyone seriously interested in poetry now must have

the poems explore the instability of the lyric ‘I’ and the addressed ‘You’

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Your Turn To Speak by Lady Red Ego Adnan al Sayegh ‘A book that anyone seriouslyYour Turn to Speak! gathers classical lovers into a room and encourages them to speak one by one. Zeus, Hera, Patroclus, Achilles, Aphrodite and Medea take to the stage and forge their dramatic monologues, while Sappho broods and whispers fragmented asides from the front row of the stalls. Together, they dissect the DNA of the love poem, in all its tragedy and comedy. Ultimately, we readers may begin to hear our own voices speak through the actors.