Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living and the dead. This collection... Læs mere
From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain's... Læs mere
In contemplating her own death, Louise Gluck confronts the possible and the inevitable in this, her ninth and boldest book.
The first UK edition of a radical and unconsoling contemporary collection of essays on poetry, from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020.
Louise Gluck's collection is a work of ends and beginnings. Her poetry comes in white-hot sequences of passionate intensity. "Vita Nova" is a sequence of poems which dramatises the end of a relationship and the beginning of a new life.
A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and also dwells on lives and poems. The book includes writings on T.S. Eliot, George Oppen, Sylvia Plath, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, and John Berryman.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020! Shortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection. 'At last the night surrounded me; / I floated on it,... Læs mere
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020! The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in... Læs mere
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020! Includes Penelope's Song in which Louise Glück interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a... Læs mere
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020! Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between... Læs mere