Poems & Fragments by Sappho Julia Bird was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh

was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Best First Collection prize

Guppy Primer

Ranging from the playful to the elegiac

author of Archangel (Cape Poetry

Poems & Fragments by Sappho Julia Bird was shortlisted for the AldeburghThis 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 Fragment. In a new essay on these additions she discusses the issues raised in the translating and in some cases retranslating of these fragmentary and ever shifting texts. Poems & Fragments is now the only complete, readily available translation in English