who strikes up a rapport with a depressed old man who used to be a writer
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'
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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
swimming and tennis – as recorded by almost 100 poets including W H Auden
Space Parsley Jessie Lendennie who strikes up a rapport"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.