Jane Yeh was born in the USA and educated at Harvard University, but now lives in London, where she is senior researcher in creative writing at Kingston University. She also teaches Arvon writing courses and writes on books, theatre, fashion and sport for a number of publications. Her first collection of poetry, Marabou, was published by Carcanet in 2005. ‘The Ghosts’ is from her second collection, The Ninjas (Carcanet, 2012), which features speakers as varied as androids, a worried baby panda, an infiltrator into a coven of witches, Sherlock Holmes, and bored girls in portraits. Yeh creates worlds that are surreally funny at the same time as being unsettling and lonely, both eerily familiar and utterly strange.
‘The Ghosts’ is reprinted here by permission of Carcanet.
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