Anomaly

Author: Jamie McKendrick
Format: Paperback, 130mm x 195mm, 150g, 64 pages
Published: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023

Jamie McKendrick connects our list to the European continent with his sensitive prizewinning translations of Italian and Spanish poetry. This new collection of original poems shows his gift for bringing into verse the vivid landscapes and ‘earscapes’ wherever he travels: be it the English countryside or the sunlit Mediterranean. Philosophical, compassionate and ever imaginative, Anomaly demonstrates McKendrick’s deep learning in the visual arts as well as in the European literary heritages we share.

Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection and a Poetry Book Society Choice; Ink Stone (2003), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Crocodiles & Obelisks, shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Out There (2012) won the Hawthornden Prize. An earlier selection of his poems was published as Sky Nails (2000), and he is editor of 20th-Century Italian Poems (2004). The Embrace, his translations of Valerio Magrelli’s poetry, won the Oxford-Weidenfeld and the John Florio prizes.