Autobiography of Death Ron Southerton from a hellish prison- no

from a hellish prison- no easy task when P’ei Ti is the rebels’ most valuable hostage and Yun Cai considers himself merely a spent

Soon he enlists Mr Malgas’s help: drawn in by the stranger's conviction

but subjects the fragments of tribal lore to imaginative revision

Jo Farrant

Autobiography of Death Ron Southerton from a hellish prison- noWinner of the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize Winner of the 2019 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize I thought to myself that I needed to sing death, perform a rite for death, write death, then bid farewell to it. The way to send death away was to sing with my own death all the death in the sky and on the ground. The title section of Kim Hyesoons visceral Autobiography of Death consists of forty nine poems, each poem representing a single day