The Cleopatras by Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones poetry Are we hungry for change

Are we hungry for change or seeking old certainties

When an accident with a car jack results in the latter’s death

It is less well known that he was a stockbroker in Paris and that after the 1882 financial crash he struggled to sustain his artistry

I devoured it until the very last crumb and then licked the packet

acclaimed author of Hollow Places

The Cleopatras by Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones poetry Are we hungry for changeA woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast or so the legend tells us. But the real life story of the historical Cleopatra VII is even more compelling. She was the last of seven Cleopatras who ruled Egypt before it was subsumed into the Roman Empire. The seven