Lamentations for England and London - S. Etana (poetry chapbook)

Chapbook containing 14 poems in dramatic sequence, introduced by an Argument.

'Compassed all around me, these beasts of conspiracy, 
Haggard lions of the city’s unconsciousness, 
Vapours of ghostly emanations that mirror me 
Yet on my own as a rock plunged into the deep, 
Ne’er to be touched ’neath the motionless waters, 
Salvation maintains my station, tormented, 
Suffocating in clairvoyance.' 

The debut of historian and poet S. Etana, Lamentations for England and London explores the present state of things: the interior self-concept that so addles the Saxon soul, the spiritual malaise it embodies, and the metaphysical prison that keeps it there.

Lamentations creates a timeless idiolect recalling ancient Near Eastern, Old English and modern poetic traditions. 

Blairite Britain, ancient Sumeria, poverty, sickness and disease, metaphysics, crisis of faith, English history, spiritual affirmation