Tag Archives: Anna Kavan

Confirmed Summer Impressions Titles

Posted on 21st July 2022 by Crispin Peet

Below are the newly reprinted works available now which make up our Summer Impressions series:  Ryunosuke Akutagawa: Kappa Jared Cade: Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days Jean Cocteau: Le Livre Blanc Jean Cocteau: Opium  Ithell Colquhoun: The Crying of the Wind Ithell … Continue reading →

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The Singular, Undeniably Unusual Life of Anna Kavan

Posted on 27th July 2020 by Crispin Peet

Below is an article which initially appeared in The Nation magazine, written by Audrey Wollen: Machines in the Head gives a glimpse into a writer whose work and career upended conventions around fiction, opioids, and biography. In the foreword to … Continue reading →

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Anna Kavan – The Awful Force of Inanimate Things

Posted on 16th June 2020 by Crispin Peet

One of the brightest lights on the Peter Owen list, Anna Kavan, is in the spotlight herself Stateside. Here’s what New York Review of Books witer Miranda Seymour had to say about the US edition of our recent Kavan collection Machines … Continue reading →

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In deep with Anna Kavan

Posted on 27th March 2020 by Crispin Peet

A lengthy and perceptive feature review by Leo Robson in the New Yorker magazine of 23 March 2020 focuses on the British author Anna Kavan and Machines in the Head, a comprehensive new anthology of her writings published in late … Continue reading →

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Naomi Frears – a painting for Ice

Posted on 7th November 2017 by Sam Oates

The new edition of Anna Kavan’s Ice features the brushwork of British artist Naomi Frears. In the painting Wish You Were Here the brightness of her female figure seems ready to fade into the desolate black background which, cracked and vaporous, might describe … Continue reading →

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Christopher Priest on Ice

Posted on 28th September 2017 by Sam Oates

Anna Kavan’s Ice was first published by Peter Owen in 1967. Today it is hailed as a classic of science fiction and an influential work of the ‘slipstream’ genre. A new hardback edition celebrates the enduring significance of this short and … Continue reading →

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