Monuments to a Stolen Revolution and Other Poems from Bucharest

The poems in this book are 'verbal snapshots' from when the author lived in Bucharest, Romania, with his family and served as Anglican chaplain in Bucharest and Sofia between 2002 and 2005. Romania has applied to join the EU following the revolution of 1989, which saw the overthrow of the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and the start of transition to a market economy. Taxis are frighteningly cheap, the currency, the Leu, is about to be revalued, while Ceauşescu's demolition of old Buch...