Catullus: Shibari Carmina by Isobel Williams Ned Denny whose focus is unsparing

whose focus is unsparing

with the poets reading to you in person

In these poems about the death of his mother

Paul Stephenson

Catullus: Shibari Carmina by Isobel Williams Ned Denny whose focus is unsparingCarcanet publishes several Catulluses: C. H. Sisson's, Len Krisak's, Simon Smith's. But Isobel Williams's Catullus: Shibari Carmina is different in kind from the earlier versions. 'Translating Catullus has been, for me, like cage fighting with two opponents,' the translator writes: 'not just A Top Poet, but the schoolgirl I was, trained to show the examiner that she knew what each word meant.' The struggle is intensified by the presence of a third