Paul Hawkes is a lover of Greece and her beautiful countryside, in particular the magical isles with their own character and light, giving rise to the richest mythology on the planet. Paul has chosen to try to bring up to date and introduce to a much wider audience than the traditional classics perhaps our best book – certainly one of the oldest.
Paul also writes poems about the environmental crises. He came eighth in 2014 in the International Welsh Open Poetry Competition (with TolkienWW1Thomas) and second in 2016 (with Shattering Earth 2016) and again in 2022 (with Ukraineing).
He lives in Aberteifi, by the River Teifi, near the coast of wonderfully wild south-west Wales, where the Welsh dolffins play.
… Long ago in a far distant and different – though maybe not so – world, 1,250BCE, yet-to-be Greeks tried to retake that world’s most beautiful woman, Helen of Troy, ‘the face that launched a 1,000 ships’ (actually 1,034). She’d been seduced/abducted by Paris, the Trojan prince. If she...
