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First published 2016
Copyright © Jay Griffiths, 2016
Author photo copyright © Ruth Lawrence, 2016
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Lines on pp. 97–8 from ‘Hymn to Hermes’ from Homeric Hymns, edited by Nicholas Richardson, translated by Jules Cashford (London: Penguin Books, 2003), copyright © Jules Cashford, 2003; lines on p. 168 from In Praise of Mortality by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (New York: Riverhead, 2005), reprinted by permission of the translators; lines on pp. 177–8 and 184 from Selected Poems: Rumi, translated by Coleman Banks (London: Penguin Books, 2004), copyright © Coleman Banks, 1995.
ISBN: 978-0-241-97205-2
PART ONE: My Maddest Wednesday
PART TWO: The Condition of Passion
PART THREE: The Trickster of the Psyche
PART FOUR: Till the Light
PART FIVE: Mind Flight
Artist-Assassin: Poems
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Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time
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‘Almost shockingly beautiful, a profoundly felt, deeply thought, fiercely argued examination of childhood … It is written in prose that is hardly prose, a poetry in paragraphs’ Andrew Solomon, The New York Times
A Love Letter from a Stray Moon
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‘A poetic narrative that ripples with colour, acts of liberation and grief’ New Statesman
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