It’s invigorating and makes me proud of being human’ – Jane Campion
the sincere slips in besides the absurd
by Costa-winning author and poet Angela Readman
‘Bloodaxe has just announced the exciting second collection from Dr Claire Askew
the ideas of truth and justice
Cosmic Sadness by Jean Portante, translated by Zoe Skoulding tayi tibble It’s invigorating and makes meCosmic Sadness is a glittering, grief struck astronomy of the everyday, in which kitchens, scaffolding, train stations and gardens tilt slowly into interstellar space. In Jean Portante's long, linked sequences, memory and matter are always in motion: roses drift above language, migratory birds arrive with their beaks nailed shut, drawers open on months, planets and old parents, while the sky behaves like a flooded cellar or a cracked cinema screen.