Exploring longing, lust for life, ageing, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, etudes is a diary-like sequence of poems by one of the greatest living Austrian poets. Friederike Mayrocker's almost daily entries give us a unique...

Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike Mayrocker – and bringing to an end a half century of shared life, and shared literary work. Mayrocker immediately began attempting to come to terms wit...

Friederike Mayrocker is one of Europe's most exciting avant-garde writers. In a career spanning more than sixty years, this "dadaelian artificer" (Christopher Middleton) has pushed back the limits of convention to reveal the "deep structure" of exist...