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Josephine Balmer

Author of Classical Women Poets

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About the Author

Josephine Balmer was born in Hampshire in 1959. She studied Classics and Ancient History at University College, London, and worked as a continuing education lecturer in Classics and Comparative Literature. She is a freelance writer and translator, reviewing translation and poetry for several show more national newspapers and journals show less

Works by Josephine Balmer

Classical Women Poets (1996) 18 copies

Rearranging the World (2001) 13 copies

Chasing Catullus: Poems, Translations And Transgressions (2004) 11 copies

Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry (Classical Presences) (2013) 5 copies

The Word for Sorrow (2009) 3 copies

Letting go: thirty mourning sonnets and two poems (2017) 2 copies

'Ancient ladies' in TLS 5121, 25 May 2001 [review of Anne Carson's 'Men in the Off Hours'] 1 copy

Chasing Catullus: Poems, Translations and Transgressions: Poems, Translations & Transgressions by Josephine Balmer… (1846) 1 copy

The Paths of Survival (2017) 1 copy

Associated Works

Poems and Fragments (1984) — Translator, some editions — 549 copies

Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English (Classical Presences) (2009) — Contributor — 7 copies

Virgil and his Translators (Classical Presences) (2018) — Afterword — 1 copy

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Gender: female
Places of residence: Ashdown Forest, Sussex, UK
Relationships: Married to Paul Dunn

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Works: 9
Also by: 3
Members: 55
Popularity: #295,340
Rating: 4.0

ISBNs: 10

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