Beginnings & Other Tragedies by Ilaria Boffa John Keats when round the bend beside

when round the bend beside a stream

It is a book to foster a love of words and the power that comes with the spoken word

and as WIDE as the WORLD is LONG

but relevant

Beginnings & Other Tragedies by Ilaria Boffa John Keats when round the bend besideBeginnings & Other Tragedies is a powerful book length poem, offering a choral experience of a present future where almost all hope seems lost except for that offered by poetry itself, and the "beginners" who care about our planet and dream of making a change. In the background, the landscape of Venice, the sinking city. Drawing on nature poetry, dystopian fiction and Greek tragedy, Ilaria Boffa reimagines scientific and ecological language as sites