Description
By reimagining episodes from Homer’s Odyssey, Jay Gao’s highly anticipated debut collection, Imperium, introduces an innovative talent whose work cuts across poetic traditions, traversing mythic cartographies and imperial formations. Exploring forms of absolute and intimate power, Imperium is an imaginative meditation on how the past lives on in the present by way of, and beyond, a global poetics of diaspora.







Poems Written Abroad
A Quarter of an Hour
Words the Turtle Taught Me
Life For Us
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Luck Is the Hook
River Lane
The Silvering
Let Us Compare Mythologies
Hello, Mr Whale!