Bad drivers, sweaty tourists, unnecessary inspections — is travel worth the bother? Or are the irritations actually part of the adventure? A dozen of the world’s best current poets offer differing views of the ups and downs of going abroad.

Travels and Travails
Poems of going abroad
Amit Majmudar, Marilyn L. Taylor, Mike Cooper, Anthony Lombardy, Jean L. Kreiling, Ed Shacklee, Max Gutmann, Julia Griffin, D.A. Prince, John Beaton, A.E. Stallings, Tom Vaughan
Published August 2021
Series Editor Robin Helweg-Larsen
Illustrated by Alban Low
ISBN 978-1-912960-84-2
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Potcake Chapbook 10
SLB197
Print run of 250
Price – £2.60
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The “Potcake Chapbook” series is named for the dogs of the Bahamas and the Caribbean – strays that live off the burnt scrapings of cooking pots. The poems in the series are a mixed bunch – but the potcake of our logo wears a
bow tie to show that he and all the poems are formal. These poems are memorable in part because they rhyme and scan, as all truly memorable poetry does. We subscribe to the use of form, no matter how formless the times in which we live.