The Sunken Keep (Paperback or Softback)

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970), called by T. S. Eliot 'one of the most authentic poets of Western Europe, ' was, along with Eugenio Montale, the most significant Italian poet of the twentieth century. His first book, Il Porto Sepolto, was written while he served as an infantryman in World War 1. It was followed by five further books of poetry, including Il Dolore (Sorrow, 1947), on the death of his nine-year old son, Antonio, and culminating in his collected poems, Vita d'un uomo (The Life of a Man) in 1969. His travel writings and essays were collected in Il Deserto e Dopo (The Desert and Afterwards, 1961). He died on 2 June, 1970, in Milan.

Andrew Fitzsimons was born in Ireland, and is a Professor at Gakushuin University, Tokyo. As well as essays on Irish poetry, he has published on Beckett, Shakespeare, and contemporary British poetry, and translated from Italian poets, including Eugenio Montale and Andrea Zanzotto. His study of Thomas Kinsella, The Sea of Disappointment, was published in 2008, and he edited Thomas Kinsella: Prose Occasions 1951-2006 (Carcanet, 2009). His books of poetry, What the Sky Arranges: Poems made from the Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō and A Fire in the Head were published by Isobar in 2013 and 2014.

Sergio Maria Calatroni, artist, photographer and designer, was born in Santa Giuletta, Pavia, Italy, in 1951, and attended the Accademia di Belle Arti of Brera in Milan. His works have been exhibited in major museums in Italy and abroad; the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf im Ehrenhof, Germany, and the National Museum of Kyoto, Japan, hold his works in their permanent collections. He has been a professor of Architecture at the European Design Institute in Milan, and since 2007 a visiting professor in Department of Museum Technology at the University Museum, the University of Tokyo. In 2008 he received the Grand Prize in the Japanese Display Design Awards.