Chasing Catullus

by Balmer, Josephine

• ISBN13: 9781852246464
• ISBN10: 1852246464
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-15
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

"Chasing Catallus juxtaposes ancient poetry with modern- but classically influence- works.... Balmer...includes new translations of classical texts by Euripedes, Virgil, and Propertius and original poems that use the Latin texts as a palimpsest. Balm

Author Biography

Josephine Balmer was born in Hampshire in 1959. She studied Classics and Ancient History at University College, London, and worked as a continuing education lecturer in Classics and Comparative Literature. She is a freelance writer and translator, reviewing translation and poetry for several national newspapers and journals

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 9
Before
Translation from Propertius	p. 13
Juvenal Goes to Town	p. 14
WCl	p. 16
'78 Nights (after Cavafy)	p. 17
Wet Weekend	p. 18
Feminine Ending: to Sulpicia	p. 19
After Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne	p. 20
Chasing Catullus	p. 21
Philomela	p. 22
During
Translation from Euripides	p. 23
Greek Tragedy	p. 24
Cutting the Hydra	p. 25
Herculean Task	p. 26
Birthday List	p. 27
De Raptu Proserpinae	p. 28
Niobe (after Sophocles)	p. 29
Titan Arum	p. 30
Undertaking	p. 31
Cancel the Invite I	p. 32
Cancel the Invite II (from Plato, via Eliot)	p. 33
Set it in Stone	p. 34
Demeter in Winter	p. 35
In Coventry	p. 36
After
Translation from Virgil	p. 39
Heroics
Fresh Meat: a perversion of Iliad 22	p. 41
Star, Falling	p. 43
Creusa	p. 44
Odyssey
Scilly	p. 46
Glendalough	p. 47
Chapel Downs	p. 48
Easter in Sancreed	p. 49
Letchworth Crematorium	p. 50
Easter in Sancreed (Reprise)	p. 51
September, Chysauster	p. 52
More at Sancreed	p. 53
3, May Cottages	p. 54
Return to Ithaca (Via Cavafy)	p. 55
East Meon	p. 56
May Day	p. 57
Notes	p. 59
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