You shouldn’t always judge a book by its cover, but you can get pretty far with an epigraph. The epigraph to Will Harris’s new collection, Brother Poem (following his T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted ...

The poems are in Sapphic stanzas, arranged alphabetically by first letter of first word, here ο and π. The dialect is Aeolic, the vernacular of Sappho’s native Lesbos. In papyrus order, the poems are ...

The epigraph to Will Harris’s new collection, Brother Poem (following his T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted RENDANG in 2020), is a brief but telling prelude, an as-if translated from Russian into English: ...