Mountainish Ulla Kasten But as the poems in

But as the poems in Swarf reveal

He now lives in Aberystwyth and until recently was Editor of the influential magazine of diverse international writing

It is an epic

The narrative of the race is intersected by apocryphal origin stories of Hodell’s earlier works that freely blur fact and fiction

Mountainish Ulla Kasten But as the poems inA narrator and her dog are criss crossing the Swiss Alps. She travels with friends who share her interest in food, languages and their topographical contexts. They collect colours, even look for colourlessness, and develop the idea of a walk in diary, a vain attempt to archive their observations. Gradually, other mountains appear in their observations and memories, as do the mountains of literature and art. Mountains may be sites of fear and awe, of