Celebrate with the editors of three new Carcanet Classics at Heffers, as we launch their latest books.

Selected Poems by John Heath-Stubbs. This selection of an abundant poet restores him to a new readership with the work on which his popularity was based. It includes a critical introduction by John Clegg who essentialises and celebrates the work.

Poems by Propertius. Patrick Worsnip's translations bring out Propertius' playfulness and his psychological acuity, reinstating his poems at the heart of Latin literature's golden age.

Selected Essays by Walter Pater. Selected Essays is a generous gathering of Pater’s essays on literature, art, history, philosophy and mythology — all of them, in the words of Oscar Wilde, ‘delicately wrought works of art’. The selection is accompanied by Alex Wong’s critical and biographical introduction and rich explanatory notes.

John Clegg was born in Chester in 1986, and grew up in Cambridge. In 2013, he won an Eric Gregory Award. He works as a bookseller in London.

Patrick Worsnip worked for more than forty years as a correspondent and editor for Reuters news agency. Since retiring in 2012, he has devoted himself to translation from Italian and Latin, and to magazine articles on Italian poetry. He divides his time between Cambridge and Umbria, Italy.

Alex Wong is a literary scholar living in Cambridge, where he is a Research Fellow of St John’s College. He published The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe in 2017, and his studies of English literature have appeared in various periodicals. Poems Without Irony, his first collection of verse, was published in 2016, and he has also edited the Selected Verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015).

The launch is free to attend but booking is required as places are limited. Tickets can be booked through this page, by calling 01223 463200 or in person at Heffers bookshop. Please note this is an informal, celebratory event, not a full author talk. A limited number of chairs will be available.