The emergence of the London-based poet Ned Denny has been a light in the darkness of the last four years, during which worldwide circumstances have changed to alarming effect.
In 2019, his Unearthly Toys won the Seamus Heaney Prize for a first collection. He followed it with a version of Dante’s Commedia, recasting the original into nine hundred 144-syllable stanzas and titled B (After Dante), which Alberto Manguel described as “a great English-language poem in its own right”. Carcanet has now published his second collection of poems: Ventriloquise.
