A collection by a writer born in the former GDR, voicing his childhood landscape of uranium mines: history and experience through imagery, not reportage.
This book is a collaboration between the author and illustrator, who were asked by the publisher Andrew Moorhouse to look at a painting by Bruegel to see if this might spark a response from ... read more
This anthology of Japanese poetry dates from the C10th and became the basis of all later vernacular poetry including haiku. The early literary authors Shikibu and Shonagon drew from it too, ... read more
A novel in verse based on the experiences of the author's great aunt, who went to Canada as an orphan in 1908 where she worked as an indentured servant.