Summer Reading


Preorder FOLK, my McKitterick Prize longlisted debut novel before 15 April 2025 and you’ll get it before anyone else, plus your name (or a fake one if you prefer) will be printed at the back of the book.

Preorder it here︎︎︎

 







“How shall I express this lament,
This sensation of death
Which dissolves
As it courses through my limbs?

How shall I express in song
This sensation of becoming
Which releases
You, oh spirit, as it blows?”

He lamented, he sang,
Fearful of annihilation,
Ecstatic with transfiguration,
Until life fled.

That is the meaning of the swan’s song!

Source: schubertsong.uk
original German text translated by Malcolm Wren.
Republished here by kind permission. All Rights reserved.
   







 




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