Eight Birds and Other Poems

Kyriakos Sorokkou studied English Language and Literature at the European University Cyprus where he staged his first play within the University's Drama Club. He also won 2 creative writing competitions at the same University one in 2009 with the title Soil Soul and Blood and one in 2012 with the title Two Bullets and A Dry Martini. He is currently studying Playwriting at the University of Salford. Eight Birds and Other Poems is the second collection of poetry by Kyriakos Sorokkou. Eight Birds is a long poem written in the style of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land It's a poem about migration; It talks about the poet's inner fight and his dilemmas on what is wiser to do: migrate and succeed or stay in your country and fail?