Imperium

Winner of A Somerset Maugham Award 2023

Winner of An Eric Gregory Award 2023

Winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2023

Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2023

By reimagining episodes from Homer's Odyssey, Jay Gao's highly anticipated debut collection, Imperium, introduces an innovative talent whose work cuts across poetic traditions, traversing mythic cartographies and imperial formations. Exploring forms of absolute and intimate power, Imperium is an imaginative meditation on how the past lives on in the present by way of, and beyond, a global poetics of diaspora.