Leith Morton, Tokyo supporting Burmese activists and displaced

supporting Burmese activists and displaced people to access higher education

exploring the complexity and disjunctions of the contemporary moment while ‘trapped in the supermarket of language’

He died in 2002

He was born into a family of Balkan Wars refugees in 1973 in Strumica

Leith Morton, Tokyo supporting Burmese activists and displacedTokyo is a four chapter poem that attempts to capture the essence of the modern city of Tokyo, the biggest city on earth, by poems grouped into four categories: history, people, geography and art. This eclectic exploration thus paints a picture of the living beast that is the modern city of Tokyo while also playing a side riff on one or two outsiders who resided as denizens in the belly of the beast. The poems include lyrics but are primarily linked