Nominy-Dominy

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Nominy-Dominy, Lesley Saunders' fourth collection, is an extended praise-song for the Greek and Latin literature she grew up with as a schoolgirl. These poems respond, in oblique and glancing ways, to the riches of these two cultures: brief glimpses into the dream-world of the Iliad and Odyssey, vignettes of an estranged Roman Britain, and windows onto the mediaeval Latin lyric. Three long poems - contemplating 'The Uses of Greek', imagining the poet Sappho living out her life on the island of Inishbofin, and celebrating 'The Farness of Latin' - mark transitions between thematic clusters of shorter pieces. Nominy-Dominy, with its vivid enactment of how, and why, antiquity continues to shape us, will confirm what Michael Hulse, writing in The Poetry Review of her 2012 Cloud Camera, found to be a 'most intelligent and thrilling book of poetry'. N° de ref. del artículo LU-9781909747340

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Acerca del autor: Lesley Saunders is the author of several poetry collections, most recently 'This Thing of Blood & Love' (Two Rivers Press 2022) and, with artist Rebecca Swainston, 'Days of Wonder' (Hippocrates Press 2021), a document of the Covid-19 pandemic. Her English translations – including the poem that won the 2016 Stephen Spender award – of renowned Portuguese poet Maria Teresa Horta were published as 'Point of Honour' (Two Rivers Press 2019). Lesley works on collaborative projects with visual artists, sculptors, musicians, photographers and dancers as well as other poets. Otherwise, she is a visiting professor at UCL Institute of Education, London, and an honorary research fellow at Oxford University Department of Education.