Anne Carson

Blending the modern and the classical, this is the first full-length publication in Britain from Anne Carson, described by Michael Ondaatje as 'the most exciting poet writing in English today'.

Glass and God

Emiley Jones

Well there are many ways of being held prisoner,

The bare blue trees and bleached wooden sky of April

Something inside it reminds me of childhood—

it is the light of the stalled time after lunch

and mothers stand at the kitchen sink pondering

Goblins, devils and death stream behind me.

It is stunning, it is a moment like no other, 

when one's lover comes in and says I do not love you anymore.

XI of “The Fall of Rome: A Traveler’s Guide”

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stretched like a surface of millstone grit between body and mind,

Soul is what I kept watch on all that night.

We lay on top of the covers as if it weren't really a night of sleep and

caressing and singing to one another in our made-up language

That was a night that centred Heaven and Hell,

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