Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis Toby Martinez de las Rivas Some stories are her own

Some stories are her own

precise and vividly memorable – listening to the ‘machine of spring/with all your levers thrown to max’

Peter Robinson produced and ordered the texts of Slakki in response to instructions and advice from Roy Fisher

' – Jean Binta Breeze MBE

This beautiful edition honours the ways in which Lorde’s work resonates more than ever thirty years after they were first published

Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis Toby Martinez de las Rivas Some stories are her ownJenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgameshs city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns and women had their own language emesal. With this shift of emphasis, Lewis captures the powerful allure of the worlds oldest poem and gives it a fresh dynamic while creating a fastpaced narrative for a new generation