Category: Poetry

  • Light and Thread

    Light and Thread

    by Han Kang (Translated by Maya West, e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris) With profound spaciousness, Light and Thread offers Han’s rich embodied knowledge as a writer. Not merely being writing about writing, it is an attentive collection of poems, essays, images and diary entries; they shine a light on how we can keep asking…

  • The Old Ways: Robert Macfarlane

    Paperback now available – £9.99 Nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot is lyrical nature writing that draws deep on literature, myth and memory. It’s a book for walkers or indeed anyone who’s felt their imagination stir as they put one foot in front of the other on an…

  • Humboldt’s Gift: Saul Bellow/In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: Delmore Schwartz

    Humboldt’s Gift is loosely based on Saul Bellow’s relationship with Delmore Schwartz who, as a short story writer and poet, in his early twenties burned as brightly as the best of them before failing to live up to the expectations that were placed on his young shoulders by the waiting literary observers. It’s impossible to…