Poet Kenneth Steven has a special relationship with the small Hebridean island of Iona, set in the Atlantic off the west coast of Scotland. It was the place of learning and worship in the 6th century, ...

With The Boyhood of Cain he makes his fiction debut, presenting a novel that acts as an update on classic boyhood stories but through a queerer, more poetic lens. We sat down with Amherst in the ...

Working with the texts of an exciting, exacting poet and a singer-muse who has inspired almost all of his operatic work, ...