Most people outside Italy know Pier Paolo Pasolini for his films, many of which began as literary works – "Arabian Nights", "The Gospel According to Matthew", "The Decameron", and "The Canterbury Tales" among them. What most people are not aware of i...

How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? The question represents one of the liveliest areas of inquiry in the humanities, and Mark Payne seeks to answer it by exploring the relationship between human beings and oth...

A debut collection from an exciting new voice in Alaska poetry, "Overwinter" reconciles the natural quiet of wilderness with the clamor of built environments. Jeremy Pataky's migration between Anchorage and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park inspires t...

Marjorie Perloff writes in her preface to "Poetics in a New Key" that when she learned David Jonathan Y. Bayot wanted to publish a collection of her interviews and essays, she was "at once honored and mystified".  But to Perloff's surprise and her re...

For Tom Pickard poetry is a free, and freeing, space. His pen "demands / complete autonomy", and finds it as it explores both harsh and lyrical realities with a northern working-class sensibility. A lifelong counter-cultural figure, Pickard transcend...

Wilfred Owen is the poet of pity, the voice of the soldier maimed, blinded, traumatised and killed, not just in the Great War, but in all wars since, so resonant has his message become. Although he saw only five of his poems published in his lifetime...

The death of a mother alters forever a family's story of itself. Indeed, it taxes the ability of a family to tell that story at all".The Accounts" narrates the struggle to speak with any clear understanding in the wake of that loss. The title poem at...

"Hollywood & God" is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing – even lurid – hallucination. From the "Baltimore Catechism" to the great noir films of t...

"In Darkness Inside Out" Rodney Pybus takes the reader on a series of excursions within real and imagined, beautiful and barbaric worlds. From Suffolk to Cape Town, from comedy to elegy, Pybus's poems explore the collusions of language and memory, th...

"Small World" tells a story of the changing relationship between a father and his two daughters, one severely disabled, a "mermaid in a wheelchair", the other discovering the difference of her elder sister, the "moon" to her "earth". Each succeeding...