Between a Drowning Man

Martyn Crucefix's new collection of poems trace two landscapes - contemporary Britain and the countryside of the Marche in central, eastern Italy. Both places are vividly evoked - the coffee shops, traffic tailbacks, shopping malls, tourist-dotted hillsides and valleys of modern Britain appear in stark contrast to the Classical ruins of Italy.

About the author

Martyn Crucefix's recent publications include Cargo of Limbs (Hercules Editions, 2019) and The Lovely Disciplines (Seren, 2017). These Numbered Days, translations of poems by Peter Huchel (Shearsman, 2019) won the Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize, 2020. A Rilke Selected is forthcoming from Pushkin Press, 2023, as is a translation of Lutz Seiler's essays, Sundays I Thought of God (And Other Stories). Currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at The British Library, Martyn blogs on poetry, translation and teaching at http://www.martyncrucefix.com.

Summary

Martyn Crucefix’s new collection of poems trace two landscapes – contemporary Britain and the countryside of the Marche in central, eastern Italy. Both places are vividly evoked – the coffee shops, traffic tailbacks, shopping malls, tourist-dotted hillsides and valleys of modern Britain appear in stark contrast to the Classical ruins of Italy.

Product details

• Authors: Martyn Crucefix
• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781784633059
• ISBN: 978-1-78463-305-9
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 129 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 94 g
• Illustrations: Not illustrated
• Series: Salt Modern Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies