Jamie McKendrick's sixth collection starts from the far flung ('out there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mood of an observer on Uranus, or the perils of medi
Valerio Magrelli was born in Rome in 1957. Among many other awards for his poems, he has won the Mondello Prize (1980), the Viareggio (1987), the Montale Prize (2002) and the Feltrinelli Prize (2002)
The poems in Crocodiles & Obelisks explore different ways of remembering, with astonishing shifts of perspective and style, of time and place. The collection is stalked by a cast of unreconciled and g
Drawn from thirty years of work, this selection gathers from the best of the author's six acclaimed collections, including some translations, from 1991's debut The Sirocco Room to Out There (2012, and
In a period when nations are retracting within their borders, the vivid and intricate poems of Jamie McKendrick's new collection Anomaly are especially timely, and speak of a fragile legacy of opennes
The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. They explore the grain, or 'tooth', of the natural world with unusual and discomf
Bassani's six classic books, collected for the first time in English as the epic masterwork they were intended to be. Set in the northern Italian town of Ferrara before, during, and after the Second W
The renowned Italian poet Valerio Magrelli has forged a unique approach for exploring the subtleties of language, a poetry of perception that takes the measure of its own veerings, “the exact degree /
The renowned Italian poet Valerio Magrelli has forged a unique approach for exploring the subtleties of language, a poetry of perception that takes the measure of its own veerings, “the exact degree /
Suffused with new life by poet Jamie McKendrick, “undoubtedly Bassani’s finest translator yet” (Times Literary Supplement), this seminal work seals Italian novelist Giorgio Bassani’s reputation as “a
