Jenny Lewis

‘Jenny Lewis is a lyricist for the end times. Technically flawless and blunt, this collection is a fine example of how poetry helps humanity cope.’ Claire Crowther

‘An intense and informed love of language.’ Mimi Khalvati

‘Jenny Lewis brings the ancient past with her into her poetry, skilfully weaving together history with narration, philosophy with religion and prose with verse. Her similes are in a class of their own.’ Dr. Salah Niazi

‘Poems of great candour and beauty that address injustice, reckoning, and transformation.’ Maya C. Popa

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Gilgamesh Retold

‘Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis (Carcanet Classics) reworks the ancient epic – it’s innovative, graceful, erudite and utterly unputdownable.’
Gavin Francis, New Statesman (The best books of 2018)

‘Gilgamesh Retold is terrific – and very beautiful. It is the fullest version I have ever read, and the richest. It has the immediacy of dream. I’ve never felt from other versions just how precious the life is which Gilgamesh longs to keep. Alison Brackenbury https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784106140/gilgamesh-retold/

Taking Mesopotamia

‘Jenny Lewis’ Taking Mesopotamia is a brilliantly conceived and executed, very moving book… This is a modernist route – we will see more poetry collections built on these lines.’  Dilys Wood, Artemis

‘Taking Mesopotamia — a brilliantly ironic title for our times — controls its anger through an accomplished and flexible technique in verse and prose. It is […] an eloquent rejoinder to those who say poetry can’t, or shouldn’t, concern itself with public matters.’ Bernard O’Donoghue https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781906188115/taking-mesopotamia/

Fathom

‘Her poems employ many of the techniques of painting, drawing readers
in through the gleam of colours so intense and appealing as to be almost
edible: ‘dark plum and liquorice’, ‘rose and burnt caramel’, ‘sunlight in
squares as shiny as toffee’” Sarah Crown, The Guardian

In this haunted and haunting collection, intuition leads cognition in a pas de deux of great power and beauty.’ Jon Stallworthy, Oxford Times https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781903039816/fathom/

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