I Name Him MeThe poetry of Ma Yan, born in 1979 in Sichuan province, has garnered increasing attention in China since her untimely death in 2010. She stands out as a poet who is simultaneously playful and fearless in her explorations of subjectivity and inter subjectivity, writing intimate yet arresting poetry of great emotional breadth. Her work delves into questions of gender, mental health, death, desire, physicality and our personal interactions to show how

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A cosmic event is here depicted: The earth begins to turn

very much recommended reading

Through this startling variety of poems in a range of forms from blank verse to free verse to "shaped" poetry runs a steady concern with what it's like to find and lose

then deftly upends

This is Rob Gittins’s second novel

• Guillaume Apollinaire

My Life in Squares is her first full collection in English

Letters to Ted (2003)

David Calcutt

Amiri Baraka

"On Wednesday