Ghost Passage - Balmer, Josephine

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Résumé :
Josephine Balmer's previous collection, The Paths of Survival, was short-listed for the 2017 London Hellenic Prize. Other collections include Letting Go (2017), The Word for Sorrow (2009), Chasing Catullus: Poems, Translations and Transgressions (2004) and the translations Catullus: Poems of Love and Hate and Classical Women Poets (2004 & 1996). Her acclaimed volume, Sappho: Poems and Fragments, was short-listed in 1989 for the inaugural US Lambda Literary Award for Poetry and has recently been reissued in a revised and expanded edition to include newly-discovered fragments (2018). She has also published a study of classical translation and versioning, Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry (2013)....

Biographie:
Josephine Balmer's collections include The Word for Sorrow (2009 & 2013) and Chasing Catullus: Poems, Translations & Transgressions (2004). Her translations include Catullus: Poems of Love and Hate (2004), Classical Women Poets (1996) and Sappho: Poems & Frag-ments (1984 & 1992). Her study of classical translation and poetic versioning, Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. She has written widely on poetry and translation for publications such as The Observer, the Independent on Sunday, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman, and The Times, for which she compiles the daily Word Watch and weekly Literary Quiz. A former Chair of the Translators' Association, she was reviews editor of Modern Poetry in Translation from 2004-2009, and is a judge for The Guardian/Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation, and an advisor to the journal, Agenda. She studied Classics and Ancient History at University College, London, and was awarded a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing by the University of East Anglia.

Sommaire:
Josephine Balmer's collections include The Word for Sorrow (2009 & 2013) and Chasing Catullus: Poems, Translations & Transgressions (2004). Her translations include Catullus: Poems of Love and Hate (2004), Classical Women Poets (1996) and Sappho: Poems & Frag-ments (1984 & 1992). Her study of classical translation and poetic versioning, Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. She has written widely on poetry and translation for publications such as The Observer, the Independent on Sunday, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman, and The Times, for which she compiles the daily Word Watch and weekly Literary Quiz. A former Chair of the Translators' Association, she was reviews editor of Modern Poetry in Translation from 2004-2009, and is a judge for The Guardian/Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation, and an advisor to the journal, Agenda. She studied Classics and Ancient History at University College, London, and was awarded a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing by the University of East Anglia....