Things We Leave Behind: Selected Poems

by Josephine Balmer, Paschalis Nikolaou (Editor)

Overview

The Things We Leave Behind gathers poems from all five of Josephine Balmer's acclaimed volumes, excavating a common ground between the distant past and our contemporary world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781837380039
Publisher:	Shearsman Books
Publication date:	09/05/2025
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Josephine Balmer studied Classics and Ancient History at University College, London and has a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. As well as poetry, she has also published translations of Sappho (revised 2018), an anthology of classical women poets (1996) and Catullus (2004), alongside a study of creative translation, Piecing Together the Fragments (2013).

Paschalis Nikolaou is Associate Professor in Literary Translation at the Ionian University, Greece, and author of The Return of Pytheas: Scenes from British and Greek Poetry in Dialogue (2017) and Creative Classical Translation (2023).