Publisher's Synopsis
This dramatic poem, written on an epic scale, was originally composed to describe the injustices that have been foisted upon millions of people across Europe over many generations. It evokes the collective struggle of the dispossessed and victimised to find a home and place of safety, and to bring about a fairer, better and more enlightened world. While the story of exile has had bitter meaning for Huguenots, landless peasants, gypsies and Romanies, Jews, Bosnians, socialists, the unemployed, Armenians, the starving, Irish, communists, Catholics and many other groups, it is tragically as relevant as ever today for those escaping conflict and famine in the Middle East and Africa.
