Of Love and Desire

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<p><i>Of Love and Desire</i>is a rich collection of love poems from Louis de Bernières, written over a lifetime, and capturing its many forms from rapture, infatuation, urgency, to sorrow, heartache and disillusion.</p><p>Poetry was de Bernières first and greatest literary love, a passion evident in the musicality and emotion of his poems, which are full of stories and the truth of lived experience. This, his second collection, bears the mark of many influences, from the classical Persian poets, to Neruda, to Quintus Smyrnaeus, to Brian Patten.</p><p><b>Beautifully illustrated by Donald Sammut, this is an indispensable companion on the lovers journey.</b></p>

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<b>Louis de Bernières</b>is the bestselling author of<i>Captain Corellis Mandolin</i>, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are<i>The Dust That Falls From Dreams</i>,<i>Birds Without Wings</i>and<i>A Partisans Daughter</i>, a collection of stories,<i>Notwithstanding,</i>and two collections of poetry,<i>Imagining Alexandria</i>and<i>Of Love and Desire.</i>

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