​My Reading

Three books I would take with me to a desert island:

 

​The Bible – King James’ Version

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry,  edited by Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair



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Gems of fiction too precious to part with:



The Dubliners by James Joyce

Collected Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Jesus’ Son and Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett

The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro

L'Étranger par Albert Camus

Bad Blood by Lorna Sage

On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin

Morfina by Szczepan Twardoch

Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk

Amongst Women by John McGahern

The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street) by Naguib Mahfouz



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Poets who never leave my bedside stand:

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Cavafy, Lorna Crozier, Victor Hugo, Czeslaw Milosz, Al Purdy, Wislawa Szymborska, Adam Zagajewski, Jack Gilbert, Alice Oswald, W.H. Auden, Les Murray, Robert Frost and Philip Larkin