A brilliant journey through a particular vein of literary history, from the C17th onwards. The Golden Treasury, General Wavell, Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Mersey Sound... rich pickings indee... read more
Carson - that extraordinarily gifted poet and classicist - has converted Euripides' tragedy to a graphic novel, in collaboration with artist Rosanna Bruno. Expect wonders.
A sequence of poems with illustrations by the poet about Herakles, who finds it hard to adapt to peacetime after a life spent making war; murders his family, and then decides that he won't c... read more
Much-anticipated new collection about, according to Her Greatness, 'different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow... forensics, encounters with lovers, the word "idea", th... read more