The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was one of the most popular
books of the later Middle Ages. Purporting to describe the
circumnavigation of an English knight through Africa, India, and
the Middle East in 1322, the narrative is a fantastical collection
of sights: seas, islands, phoenixes, pyramids, rocks that enchant
ships and apes that contain human souls, interwoven with
geographical descriptions that are perfectly accurate. Matthew
Francis's new collection is a sequence of poems that celebrate and
give voice to Mandeville, in his own words, caught as he is between
physical and symbolic geographies, between a world that is round
and one that has Jerusalem at its centre. And all of it narrated in
the terse, solitary, conflicted and strangely passionate voice of
this medieval Crusoe whose very existence was disputed.
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