Space Parsley Jessie Lendennie swimming and tennis – as

swimming and tennis – as recorded by almost 100 poets including W H Auden

landscape -- is taken from her

Passion and the tendency toward unexpected attachments are explored in Peter Gilmour's 'Fast Forwards' and Ronan Corrigan's remarkably deceptive 'Emily' as well in Helen Kampfner's 'Gloves'

Boccaccio's prose is transposed into the Venus and Adonis stanza and Chaucerian couplets respectively because both Shakespeare and Chaucer borrowed - directly or indirectly - not only stories but aspects of their world-view from their great precursor

ordinary people have been forced to leave their families and homes because of war

Space Parsley Jessie Lendennie swimming and tennis – as"These experimental translations will grab you some will give you goose bumps, some will rub off their lyric pensiveness and cheeky melancholia; some will make your fierce pipped heart feel fiercer again, in solidarity." Sophie Seita Debut collection of mistranslations of Petrarchan love poems by Kat Addis. For Fans of: Shakespeare, Anne Carson, Katherine Angel, Jacqueline Rose, Alice Notley.