This London Rosemarie Rowley we open sadly with a

we open sadly with a tribute to Mai Ghoussoub

Wood Anemones

‘Lilac and Roses’

originally written in Catalan

Praise for 100 Island Poems:

This London Rosemarie Rowley we open sadly with aTwo thousand years ago a tiny village was founded on the marshy banks of the River Thames. Since then, this outpost of a crumbling Roman Empire has become an international city, a magnetic intersection between cultures and histories. London was once the capital for millions of colonized people around the globe, includingfor nearly 200 yearsa land that would eventually become the United States. For good or bad, our tongues move with words and ideas