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Ghost Passage by Josephine Balmer 9781848617940
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Ghost Passage explores the ways in which we write ourselves in to the landscape, leaving our own trace, making our mark. From inscribed ancient artefacts and recently excavated writing tablets of... -
The Paths of Survival by Josephine Balmer 9781848615298
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22The Paths of Survival explores the fragility of the written word; the ways in which it is destroyed and the ways in which, by each fresh miracle, it endures against all the odds. Tracing the few... -
Chasing Catullus Josephine Balmer 9781852246464
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €8.78Josephine Balmer's 'Chasing Catullus' ventures into border territory, the no-man's-land between poetry and translation, juxtaposing new poems with fresh versions of ancient texts, brazenly... -
The Word for Sorrow by Josephine Balmer 9781844719655
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.78Working on Ovid's extraordinary but often much-neglected exile poetry with an old second-hand Latin dictionary one stormy spring morning, Josephine Balmer noticed a school-boy's faded name inked on... -
Classical Women Poets Josephine Balmer 9781852243425
RRP: €9.46Booksplease Price: €7.54Fragmented and forgotten, the women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long been overlooked by translators and scholars. Yet to Antipater of Thessalonica, writing in the first century AD, these... -
Things We Leave Behind: Selected Poems Josephine Balmer 9781837380039
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €15.10The Things We Leave Behind gathers poems from all five of Josephine Balmer's acclaimed volumes, excavating a common ground between the distant past and our contemporary world. From the universal... -
Shearsman 141 and 142 Kelvin Corcoran 9781848619340
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €11.21The second double issue of Shearsman magazine for 2024 features poetry by Josephine Balmer, Daragh Breen, Steve Brock, Carmen Bugan, Anna D’Alton, Amy Evans Bauer, Mischa Foster-Poole, Lucy Hamilton,... -
Poems of Love and Hate Gaius Valerius Catullus 9781852246457
RRP: €16.66Booksplease Price: €11.76Sensual, salacious and above all scandalous, the erotic verse of the Roman poet Catullus has delighted - and shocked - readers for centuries. Charting the lives and loves of a group of smart young... -
Poems & Fragments by Sappho
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02This second, expanded edition of Josephine Balmer's classic translation of the Greek poet Sappho has new, recently-discovered fragments, including the Brothers Poem, the Kypris Song and the Cologne... -
Apology For The Woman Writing by Jenny Diski 9781844083862
Booksplease Price: €21.63Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed... -
Sibylline Sisters: Virgil's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing by Fiona Cox 9780199582969
RRP: €148.75Booksplease Price: €117.00The history of Virgil and his receptions is long and varied. His twentieth-century career transformed his appearance as an anaemic imitator of Homer into the 'Father of the West', speaking above all... -
Reading Poetry, Writing Genre: English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship by Silvio Bar
Booksplease Price: €42.64This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary... -
Ovid's Heroines Clare Pollard 9781852249762
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Ovid's Heroides, written in Rome some time between 25 and 16 BC, was once his most popular work. The title translates as Heroines, and it's a series of poems in the voices of women from Greek and... -
Hadrian: The Restless Emperor by Anthony R. Birley 9780415228121
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €46.02Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond... -
Trojan Women: a comic by Anne Carson
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54This new comic-book version of Euripides' classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. The Trojan Women is a...