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‘Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power… Averno may be Glück’s masterpiece’ The New York Times Book Review
An acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poet
This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss – by a mother’s possessive grief, an abducted girl’s equivocal memories, a farmer’s lament for a lost harvest. This chorus offers neither comfort nor solace but deepened understanding, its sorrow textured by the poet’s luminous wit. Together, the poems of Averno swell to a staggeringly powerful lamentation, through which the reader glimpses the ecstasy of the inevitable, only to find it resisted by the insistent, impersonal presence of the Earth.
Charles Lamb's Specimens of Dramatic English Poets, Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare, Including the Extracts from the Garrick Plays, Now First Edited Anew by Israel Gollancz (Vols 1 & 2) 
A Monkey At the Window 
This Is Yarrow 
States of Happiness 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
The Book of Taliesin 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
Selected Poetry 
Bridge 116 
A Colomber in the House of Poesy 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Swansea Automatic 
Spiritlands 
Shuffle and Squelch: Book and CD Pack 
Love Is a Place 
On the Motion and Immobility of Douve 
Comic Poems 
Animal People 
Santiago 
The Sun of Hereafter 
Insistence 
Milk and Honey 
River Lane