Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis Toby Martinez de las Rivas and the Forward Prize

and the Forward Prize

This beautiful edition honours the ways in which Lorde’s work resonates more than ever thirty years after they were first published

A new version of the Middle English poem Pearl

it all hinges on your point of view

Black's sensitive attention to emotional states of mind

Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis Toby Martinez de las Rivas and the Forward PrizeJenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgameshs city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns and women had their own language emesal. With this shift of emphasis, Lewis captures the powerful allure of the worlds oldest poem and gives it a fresh dynamic while creating a fastpaced narrative for a new generation