The poems in Charles Tomlinson's new collection celebrate the colours and textures of places, and the people and histories that have created them. "Skywriting" forms a journey through the landscapes of Tomlinson's imagination: Mexico, Italy and Japan...

Charles Tomlinson declares that this book, emerging from the practice, the art and magic of translation, concerns itself with "the way certain fables of metamorphosis have captured the poetic imagination and how translation – literary metamorphosis –...