'Taking Mesopotamia is a truly memorable piece of work. Lewis is an acutely attentive observer, but this is more than a poetic documentary - it lives as much in the ear as in the imagination, so well acoustically arranged that we cannot forget any of the voices in it.' --Jane Draycott 'Taking Mesopotamia - a brilliantly ironic title for our times - controls its anger through an accomplished and flexible technique in verse and prose. It is [ - ] an eloquent rejoinder to those who say poetry can't, or shouldn't, concern itself with public matters.' --Bernard O'Donoghue Biografía del autor Jenny Lewis trained as a painter before reading English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and gaining an M.Phil in Poetry from the University of Glamorgan. She has been a singer-songwriter, an advertising copywriter, a children's author, playwright and screenwriter, a teacher and a civil servant, and she has also worked for the Commission for Equality and Human Rights. Lewis currently lives in Oxford, where she teaches poetry at Oxford University. She is also a Writing Tutor at Pegasus Theatre, Oxford, working with the Youth Theatre Companies. Her next collection, Taking Mesopotamia, is forthcoming in March 2014.