Imperium
From Shelf: Books with words. Some of it rhymes. A lot is short. (Poetry)
Jay Gao's debut collection Imperium introduces a compelling innovative talent.
Winner of A Somerset Maugham Award 2023. Winner of An Eric Gregory Award 2023. Winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2023. Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2023. 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.
RRP: £11.99
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781800172470
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