"'Blue jewellery" is private property. Not to be seen. Not to be talked about. It is worn like a bracelet around the wrists, on ribs, legs, arms. Blue jewellery is another name for the marks left on women's bodies, inflicted by the men around them....

As a boy growing up in rural Italy in the 1930s, Dam?n is experiencing the first stirrings of adolescence when he accidentally sees his mother having sex with the local Fascist commandant. His pain, anger, and confusion are uncomfortably intertwined...

Cees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up "Monk's Eye" on two islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and finished them on the Spanish island of Minorca, where he has spent summers for decades. The poems – which can be read in...

Breviaries, books of standard religious readings for particular denominations, are a familiar genre with a long pedigree. But you've definitely never seen a breviary like this one. "The Sex of the Angels" is a playful, often ironic take on the brevia...

As the Syrian war has raged over the past several years, the world has watched in horror. And that horror is particularly concentrated on the city of Aleppo, which has been subject to almost incomparable devastation and deprivation. Aleppo is Alice...

For sale in CIS only! The poems range across a number of topics related to marriage: parenthood, family, friendship, intimacy, divorce and bereavement, and refer from time to time to marriages in literature, operas, and the Old Testament. The verse...

A collection of mythological stories from the Vikings, including gods and goddesses such as Odin, Thor, Freya, and Loki.

The September-October 2018 issue The last published poems of the late Matthew Sweeney A translation of one of the most famous Ethiopian oral poems John Ash's first published poem in over a decade New poems by Sophie Hannah, Claudine Toutoungi and...

The July-August 2018 issue Simon Armitage's Oxford Lecture on Elizabeth Bishop Two previously unpublished essays by Anthony Burgess John Clegg discovers the real characters behind the pub scene in Eliot's The Waste Land Vahni Capildeo picks up Ke...

Described by Thom Gunn as "an ideal edition", this first volume of William Carlos Williams' "Collected Poems" is a vivid account of his formation as a poet, his time in Europe, and his interactions with the major players of Modernism (he never quite...