Benjamin Myers

Sep 24, 2024 | poemsancientandmodern.substack.com | Benjamin Myers |Joseph Bottum

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published To find the saplings lanky in the field, awkwardly stretched toward flat, indifferent sun, growing through anthills, sparse grass, and earth peeled bare by high wind; to find the seedlings run down by the mower blade and tossed aside, the piles of brush, cut sycamore and oak, heaped up against the summer’s waxing tide of yellowed grass in air as furred as smoke; is finding something out about almost, not quite, and could...

Nov 30, 2023 | dumont-buchverlag.de | Benjamin Myers

Der neue Roman vom Autor des Bestsellers ‚Offene See‘550 SeitenNoch nicht erschienen. Erscheinungstermin2024-04-15T22:00:00ZBUCHINHALTVITASTIMMENEMPFEHLUNGENENTDECKEN»Ein sensationelles Stück Erzählkunst« GUARDIANEine junge Frau, unterwegs in einer bedrohlichen Gegend, hat plötzlich das Bild einer Kathedrale auf einem Hügel vor ihrem inneren Auge. Sie wünscht sich nichts Sehnlicheres als den Schutz des heiligen Cuthberts, für dessen Gebeine sie und ihre Begleiter eine letzte Ruhestätte suchen.

Nov 19, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Mark Broatch |Richard Ford |Francis Spufford |Benjamin Myers

The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt, The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler and North Woods by Daniel Mason. Photos / SuppliedAfter the Funeral and Other Storiesby Tessa Hadley (Jonathan Cape) The fourth collection of short stories by the master literary stylist are melancholic but emotionally satisfying and hew to earlier themes, exploring transgressions between siblings, parents and spouses and burrowing into life’s many disappointments and consolations.