The Banquet
Stav Poleg
We send all orders via Royal Mail: within the UK, choose from 1st Class, 2nd Class or Special Delivery; for the rest of the world, International Standard or International Tracked. Delivery and packaging charges are calculated automatically at the checkout.
To collect orders in person from the Bookshop, choose Click and Collect at the checkout.
From the publisher
Shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025
The Banquet explores the fragile, intricate links between
language and longing - how words can reconstruct great cities out of
memories and dreams, tear them apart, or carry them from one place to
another, as if each city, house and chamber were made of sonic and
visual images rather than walls and bricks. Moving between the worlds of
philosophy, theatre and poetry - from Dante's Florence to
Wittgenstein's Cambridge; from Tom Stoppard's theatre stage to the harsh
landscapes of Rimbaud's poetry - The Banquet explores the ever-growing tensions between words and action, knowledge and ethics.