David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet

David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet

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Kim Hyesoon & Will Harris: Autobiography of Death

Kim Hyesoon is one South Korea’s foremost poets. Her groundbreaking and radically feminist poetry – ‘a transnational collision of shamanism, Modernism, and feminism’ (Griffin Prize Judges) – has been translated into English by poet Don Mee Choi for over a decade. We celebrate the ...  Show more

Nell Stevens & Olivia Laing: The Original

In The Original (Scribner), Nell Stevens’s second novel, Grace Inderwick grows up as the ward of a cold Victorian family in which the only warmth and affection is provided by her cousin Charles. After many years missing at sea, Charles returns to the household. But is this the re ...  Show more

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