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Luke Kennard

Novels

The Transition (2017)
The Answer to Everything (2021)

Collections

   The Solex Brothers (poems) (2005)
   The Harbour Beyond the Movie (poems) (2007)
   The Migraine Hotel (poems) (2009)
   The Necropolis Boat (poems) (2012)
   Holophin (poems) (2012)
   A Lost Expression (poems) (2012)
   Planet-Shaped Horse (poems) (2013)
   Cain (poems) (2016)
   Truffle Hound (poems) (2018)
   Notes on The Sonnets (poems) (2021)
   Bad Sermons (poems) (2021)

Award nominations

2017 Desmond Elliott Prize (nominee) : The Transition

Luke Kennard recommends

Clinical Intimacy (2024)
Ewan Gass
"A truly original literary mystery, and a bold meditation on care, judgement and exploitation . . . Like the best really serious novels, it's profoundly uncomfortable, avoids easy dramatic answers and forces you to really think and question - yourself as much as its own narrative. An unmissable debut."

My First Book (2024)
Honor Levy
"Levy negotiates the great wave of information overload with a deceptively effortless grace... So funny and sharp, the kind of characters you either want to scream at or buy a drink... Beautifully, intoxicatingly written, and somehow so knowing that it comes full circle to a hard-won wisdom and compassion. Exhilarating, and as significant a definition of a cultural era and its disaffected main players as Generation X was in its time."

Hourglass (2022)
Keiran Goddard
"Shockingly intimate and devastatingly funny, bleak and true."