"Inside Cavafy's poems"

"Alexandria has, of course, changed in the 71 years since Cavafy's death, but it still feels like his city. The cafés where he watched the world go by are still in business. The street markets and flaking 19th-century apartment blocks have not been swept away. Deep underground lies the buried city of the Macedonian Greeks and, somewhere, the lost tomb of Alexander the Great. Being here is like walking about inside Cavafy's poems."
Duncan Sprott examines C P Cavafy's "quiet life" and gains insight into the poet and into Egypt.