new coverings found and remade
taken mostly from the Odyssey – about a minor character
This landmark anthology celebrates six centuries of poetry from Trinity College
Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac
whose poems live at the edge of loss
Nobody by Alice Oswald #valentines new coverings found and remadeThis is a book length poem a collage of water stories, taken mostly from the Odyssey about a minor character, abandoned on a stony island. It is not a translation, though, but a close inspection of the sea that surrounds him. There are several voices in the poem but no proper names, although its presiding spirit is Proteus, the shape shifting sea god. We recognise other mythical characters Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra,