The Demon Tracts by Kristjan Norge Simon Armitage O’Brien is WH Auden’s true

O’Brien is WH Auden’s true inheritor

perhaps because of a desire to place themselves in the broader context of world literature or simply because of a youthful opposition to their predecessors

the American way versus the English tradition

and motherhood

This is a gorgeous anthology of extracts from extravagant and dark gothic stories and verse

The Demon Tracts by Kristjan Norge Simon Armitage O’Brien is WH Auden’s trueThe Demon Tracts is a faithful reproduction of the loggbok of Norwegian Shetlandic modernist poet, Kristjn Norge who vanished from the Outer Hebridean Eilean a' Bhis (Isle of the Dead) in 1961. Part diary, part collage, its collaged contents betray a figure profoundly disturbed by the vicissitudes of island life. The loggbok entries are aligned with the lunar cycles of the new moon and full moon of 1961, beginning on July 11th (which opens this