Beowulf by Chris McCully Will Harris coloured lights

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alongside four short Ovid versions

and Ezra Pound

Robin Robertson's The Long Take is a work of thrilling originality

Beowulf by Chris McCully Will Harris coloured lightsBeowulf the earliest surviving English epic was written down at some point between the eighth and the early eleventh centuries. The poems authors are unknown. It has many times been translated, recently and notably by Seamus Heaney. Any translation is a reading. Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time, as well as distinctive epic tropes including sea crossings, oracular