My Kingdom is Dying Llwyd Owen

My Kingdom is Dying Llwyd OwenWhen the main character, a successful writer, experiences writers block, he withdraws from his malign fate to Berghof, a Swiss clinic. A number of famous names in world literature are already receiving treatment there, from Martin Amis, Graham Greene and Saul Bellow to J. M. Coetzee. But is Berghof really what it purports to be? And what role does the ever silent figure of Scheherazade play in the novel? 'My Kingdom is Dying' is not just a hybrid of

and a depth of insight into the texture of Indo-Trinidadian culture that has few parallels

a moving document of her early life in terrible times

sophistication and invention

"This is ultimately a book about love

audacity and inventiveness

encountering religious bigotry

for their beauty and tenderness

Quadrophenia and This is England

Then she meets Joe

and incident

while Poetry Ireland Review lauded "a very well-crafted body of work

each poem an astonishingly fine-tuned gauge for recording the pressures and processes that generate lived occasions