Item category 2: City of Literature

'A Few Interiors' is the debut collection from an alumnus of Carcanet's 'New Poetries' series, and a recent favourite in the pages of PN Review. Rowland Bagnall's poems are, in various ways, about seeing things - movies, paintings, landscapes, rooms - and seeing or not seeing the frames that hold...

Former BBC radio producer Julian Treslove & Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, are old school friends who have never lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Now, both Libor & Finkler are recently widowed. When the three dine at Libor's apartment, it's a bi...

Alison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses, unseasonable love, history, hares, and unreasonable hope. Brackenbury's 'Selected Poems' begins in the almost Victorian villages of remote Lincolnshire, where her father tramped, as a ploughboy, behind great Shires and Percherons. Her acclaimed ea...

In this volume of adventures for Brenda and Effie we uncover the mystery of both Elephant Men and meet Tolstoy the Long-Eared Bat out of Hell! Brenda goes back to her roots with Baron Frankenstein, and there's even an investigation at the Christmas Hotel with the famous Sherlock Holmes.

In this collection, the poet is concerned with how mythology - specifically the story of Demeter and Persephone - explains the seasons. Time moves through the poems and the collection explores the way scientists view time, and how that view changes.

Jenny Lewis provides the first ever translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh by a practicing female poet. She is also the first translator to deploy a variety of forms to deal with the different scenes and themes, using metre, rhyme and free verse as well as experimental forms to bring the poem alive...

In 'Girl', Rebecca Goss considers the emotional and physical connections women make to the world around them. The poems interrogate and celebrate female identity and experience, and the dynamics of family and friendship. From a woman struck by lightning to a baby who understands shadows, Goss nav...

Widowed early in World War Two, heartbroken Helen Harrison is working in the family corner shop and, determined to rebuild her shattered life, decides to leave her domineering mother. Her godmother, Pearl, offers her work in a fashion wholesaler's. When the showroom is robbed, she meets DC Kersha...