Old tropes are cast to the wind in Mort's exhilarating new collection, her poems layered with prose, the personal and the fairy tale. Not unlike Anne Carson or Maggie Nelson in how she blurs... read more
Professor Crawford's sub-title is somewhat off-putting but his book is fascinating: haiku were unknown outside Japan until the mid C19th, when they reached London and the United States; the ... read more
A biography of the Romanian poet and translator, whose mother tongue was German and who translated Shakespeare's sonnets in the ghetto. He survived imprisonment and forced labour in WW2, mov... read more