Ghost Passage

Balmer, Josephine: - 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).