Jamie McKendrick's sixth collection starts from the far flung ('out there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mood of an observer on Uranus, or the perils of medieval travel, or listening for the speech of alien landscapes.
With a number of highly-acclaimed poetry collections to his name, this well-known poet has produced a chapbook of enigmatic and beautifully-crafted poems, each of which is accompanied by an... Læs mere
New collection of poems from prizewinning poet and translator.
'A coolly marshalled, worldly intelligence seems to be able to take on any subject from the quotidian to the arcane. The language is alert to contemporary nuance and opulently, exhilaratingly multi-layered.' William Boyd