Results for: Whitbread Book of the Year
Beowulf: Seamus Heaney
Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his new translation, Seamus ... More
The Spirit Level: Seamus Heaney
The poems in Seamus Heaney's collection The Spirit Level keep discovering the possibilities of 'a new beginning' in all kinds of subjects and circumstances. What is at stake, in poem ... More
Birthday Letters: Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than ... More
Tales from Ovid: Ted Hughes
When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. ... More
An Artist of the Floating World: Kazuo Ishiguro
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter, Masuji ... More
An Artist of the Floating World: Kazuo Ishiguro
WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEARIt is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking ... More
Elegies: Douglas Dunn