Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature

, Anne Michaels explores one of her essential concerns: 'what love makes us capable of, and incapable of'. Here is the paradox at the heart of loss, the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that 'death ... give/not only take from us'. A sea in darkness, a woman's hair shining in light,...

Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard's 'I Remember' and Edouard Levé's 'Autoportrait', passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are the alphabetical diaries.

In this book based on the Harvard University course he has taught and refined since the late 1970s, Gregory Nagy argues that the ancient Greeks' concept of "the hero" was very different from what we understand by the term today--and it is only through analysing their historical contexts that we c...

Raw and beautiful and completely devoid of pretension, Ali Whitelock's poems will speak to anyone who's ever messed up, been confused, wished they'd done things differently, to anyone who's had an affair and regretted it, who's been loved completely but was too blind to see it.

In her exquisite poems, Marjon Mossammaparast explores the physical experience of being human, bound to four dimensions, matched with the belief we are also spirit beings. And to Ecstasy is a poetic journey through space and time, projecting a transcendental element of reality. In her exquisite p...