James Lasdun
James Lasdun is the author of several books of poetry and fiction, including It’s Beginning to Hurt, a story collection. His poetry collection Landscape with Chainsaw was a finalist for the Forward, T.S. Eliot and LA Times Book Prizes.
James Lasdun on Granta.com
In Conversation | The Online Edition
James Lasdun | Podcast
James Lasdun & Ted Hodgkinson
James Lasdun on his memoir, D.H. Lawrence and why finding a close reader can sometimes be a curse.
Fiction | Issue 104
Caterpillars
James Lasdun
‘But he had engulfed her somehow; taken up residence in her imagination like some large, dense, intractable problem that had been given to her to solve.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 104
Where is Thy Sting-a-Ling-a-Ling?
James Lasdun
‘The fire department didn't have a tall enough ladder to reach his body.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 91
The Weather Where We Are
Various Contributors
‘Ice gets into the sea in two ways: it falls in from calving glaciers, or it forms during the winter. Both kinds are spectacular.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 91
The Muse in the Cellar
James Lasdun
‘It seems to me that at the age of thirteen, I had already developed the cynicism of a seventy-year-old dictator.’