Iraq Monologues is an A5 booklet-format poetry collection by Gary Beck, consisting of the Iraq Monologues poetry cycle. It was published in December 2012, with a cover designed by David Leverton, although overseas copies only shipped in January 2013.
Iraq Monologues poetry cycle[]
This is a sequence of ten poems by Gary Beck, of which each gives a different perspective on the situation in Iraq since the occupation of that country post-2003.
The poems, each named for the viewpoint character narrating, are:
- GI
- Sunni
- Shia
- Kurd
- al Qaeda
- Mahdi Army
- Bedouin
- British Officer
- Sunni Mother
- Shia Girl
Poet Comment[]
"You made a fine chapbook"
— Gary Beck
— Gary Beck