Goblinhood

As formally inventive as readers have come to expect from one of the most daring writers around, and as wild and tricky as its subject matter requires, Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode  presents us with a series of essays and poems that playfully, artfully propound Jen Calleja's theory of 'goblinhood'--a theory that takes in all aspects of pop culture from film, tv, literature and art as well as the author's personal and original examinations of grief, lust, family histories and the physical fact of living in the world as it is. Goblinhood  is a perpetually and variously curious, visceral addition to Calleja's remarkable oeuvre.

Jen Calleja is the author of Vehicle: a verse novel (Prototype), named a Book of the Year in Granta and The Big Issue; the long poem Dust Sucker (Makina Books); and the forthcoming hybrid translator memoir Fair (Prototype). She was shortlisted for the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize 2020 and longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Experiment in Text 2020, and her writing has been published in The White Review, The London Magazine, Ambit, Wasafiri, Best British Short Stories (Salt), The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting (Rough Trade Books), and elsewhere. She has been shortlisted for many translation prizes, including the Man Booker International Prize 2019 for her translation from German of Marion Poschmann's The Pine Islands. She is co-publisher at Praspar Press, which supports Maltese literature in English and English translation. She is from Shoreham-By-Sea and now based in Hastings.