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A Greek merchant-explorer Pytheas is said to be the first person to have circumnavigated the British Isles, in 325 BCE, thereby fixing the islands in the historical imagination as archipelagic, maritime, aloof. His own account of the voyage is lost. This poem attempts to make good that lack.
Lesley Saunders is the author of several books of poetry, including Cloud Camera (Two Rivers Press 2012) and is a featured poet in New Poetries VI (Carcanet 2015). She works with painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers and dancers, and is a classicist by education.